Word: aliquippa
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Twenty-five years ago, in the midst of the depression, two Pennsylvania towns, Ambridge and Aliquippa, tried one of the first serious experiments in applying new ideas about the school year. Both towns were operating under the pressure of necessity--they did not have sufficient funds to handle the school-age population using conventional methods...
...management for a settlement. United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald, who had just appealed for "some negotiating statesmanship." immediately ordered the wildcatters back to work. But the short walkouts at major mills such as U.S. Steel's Fairless works and Jones & Laughlin's plant at Aliquippa, Pa. cut holiday week output to about 80% capacity...
...steel mills and barrooms of Aliquippa, Pa., the men who make steel heatedly debate one subject. They beat it to pieces during Coke breaks in the fiery shadows of the open hearths, carry it into the Balkan Café and the Mill City Inn and Ernie's Steak House, hash it out in their homes. The crucial subject: the Pittsburgh Pirates, once the door mat of the National League but at week's end five games from first place...
...Mythology. By the hundreds they have swarmed across a hundred thousand movie screens from Aliquippa to Zagazig -mice that talk and grubs that chainsmoke, squirrels wearing overalls, bashful bunnies, sexy goldfish, tongue-tied ducks and hounds on ice skates, dachshunds bow-tied, pigs at pianos, chickens doing Traviata-even worms that do the cootch...
...conference 212 pounder Ted Metropoulus from Aliquippa opens at right guard. Pete Meister from Belmont Hill plays at right tackle, and six foot Tony Markella at right end. Nobel and Greenough's John Newell starts at center...