Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DEPARTMENT-STORE MERGER will push the Associated Dry Goods chain (1954 sales: $154.4 million) out to the West Coast. Associated, which now owns Manhattan's Lord & Taylor plus stores in Buffalo, Newark, Minneapolis, Baltimore and Louisville, will take over Southern California's J. W. Robinson Co. stores in a cash and stock deal...
...Buffalo a band of hoodlums broke into School 69 last week, emptied fire extinguishers over the auditorium's seats, smashed a snare drum through a bass drum, broke two large ceramic vases, slashed a movie screen to ribbons, desecrated a new American flag, broke both skylights in the gym, and in general indulged in a wholesale orgy of ink splashing, paint splattering, light-bulb smashing. Estimated damage: $1,000. What worried Buffalo authorities most: P.S. 69 is the twelfth school to be attacked since last February...
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...year-old daughter of show people, who until nine years ago had never had a day of formal schooling in her life. Then, after her discharge from the WACs in 1946, she took some special training at Endicott, N.Y.'s Harpur College, two semesters later enrolled in Buffalo's Hutchinson-Central High School and earned a diploma in one year. In June 1954, after another hitch in the WACs, she entered Syracuse University as a sociology major, this week graduated with a creditable "B" average. Total time it took her to get a B.A. after starting from scratch...
Every major city on the seaway route is planning waterfront improvements to attract shipping. Chicago will start work this summer on a $22.5 million dock expansion program; Toronto already has built a new million-dollar freight terminal, and is filling in waterfront sites for two more. Cleveland, Toledo, Duluth, Buffalo, Hamilton, Montreal and Quebec all have laid plans to better their harbors and build bigger docks. More than 40,000,000 tons of ocean cargo are expected to clear through the seaway in its first year of operation, yielding an average of $1 a ton in harbor fees and loading...