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Passing of George Westinghouse: Workers honor world famous inventor: Pittsburgh Press, Saturday March 14, 1914
"60,000 cease work for a day as tribute
Westinghouse plants all over the world are hushed today. Not a wheel is turning; not a man or woman in the vast shops is working. Sixty thousand employees in Pittsburgh and European cities remained idle today showing respect to the passing of George Westinghouse, the world famous inventor whose funeral took place in New York city this afternoon at 2 o'clock..."
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