[PRCo] Re: PRC 4398

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Actually Fred Keighley was one of Frick's competitors...the general manager
at one of the Oliver plants.  The newspaper clipping I have reprinted one of
his speeches verbatim, but there was no angry crowd of locals involved.  It
was just one of those things plant managers did to promote the industry.
The claims were pretty amazing, defining all the good that rained down with
the emissions from the ovens.

This particular captain of industry later took his own life after becoming
"financially embarrassed" as a result of some exotic deal.

Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Fred
Schneider
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 6:10 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRC 4398


Did EHL ever tell you the story of one of Frick's lieutenants being
confronted by local people who were angry / upset with all the smoke?  He
gave the explanation that they should be happy with the smoke; that it goes
up in the air and then the rain washes it into
their gardens and fertilizes them.   Ed could tell you who the man was.
Bullshit always rises to meet the demand!   fws

dfc1 at alltel.net wrote:

> Try living in the coke region.  It used to take 2-3 months after the
summer job at beehive coke ovens to be able to blow my nose and not have my
tissue turn black.  Imagine what it was like to spend a lifetime working the
laury or the leveler on top of those ovens.
>
> DF Cramer
>
> >
> > From: "Dietrich, Robert J." <Robert.Dietrich at unisys.com>
> > Date: 2004/12/01 Wed AM 08:35:43 CST
> > To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> > Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRC 4398
> >
> >
> >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: ken Josephson. . .
> > >
> > >Several plant employees noted that this is a common fate for steel
> > objects
> > >around the plant. They get a bit more rain than we do in the valley,
> > but >the
> > >employees attribute the rusting to sulfur dioxide and steam emissions
> > >mixing
> > >in the immediate area.
> > >
> > >This could be compared to what the Pittsburgh Low Floors were exposed
> > to, >as
> > >you noted above.
> > >
> > >Makes me wonder what those power plant employee's lungs look like....
> > >
> > >K.
> >
> > They probably look like our lungs after living in da 'burgh all those
> > years.  I sure hope they've (lungs) cleaned themselves out.
> >
> >
> >