Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manager Ralph Black of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra needed a gimmick to back up his theory that most people simply do not know a good bargain in music when they see one. After all, he thought, $7.20 for a student's season ticket to his orchestra's concerts was really dirt cheap. With the help of a slide rule, stop watch and timing book, Manager Black last week worked out his gimmick...
Visiting one of the factories in the Buffalo, N.Y. area, Prince Sultan Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia found just what he wanted on a jukebox assembly line. He picked out six of the biggest mechanical marvels and had them shipped home to his palace...
...ritif. In Buffalo, N.Y., members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union gathered for a state convention, found that the mayor had just announced the celebration of National Wine Week...
...Tennesseean turned Yankee industrialist, 66-year-old Melvin H. Baker has not forgotten his Southern hospitality. Last week the boss of Buffalo's National Gypsum Co. flew out to Medicine Lodge, Kans., to put on a party for the whole surrounding county. Schools were closed, and Baker set up free ice cream, pop and rides on a miniature railroad for 1,200 children, provided coffee, cupcakes and free ashtrays (made of gypsum) for their parents...
Beaver-busy, Baker moved on to Manhattan, was soon vice-president of a credit company. In 1925, when two former Beaver associates came to him with options on rich gypsum ores* near Buffalo, the three teamed up to form National Gypsum, and buck U.S. Gypsum, which then had a virtual monopoly on wallboard. They had $150,000 in capital, and figured that they needed $2,000,000. Baker raised it in four months by sending his salesmen out to sell stock instead of wallboard. In 1926, with a total of 57 employees, he began mining the gypsum and turning...