Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compensate for wage increases, Steel wanted sizable price increases. The Administration was openly boasting that Steel would get no such thing. So Steel's refusal to bargain with Phil Murray was its only lever in its bargaining with the hostile and partial Government. Said Ben Fairless in Cincinnati last November: "Whether our workers are to get a raise, and how much it will be if they do, is a matter which probably cannot be determined by collective bargaining, and will apparently have to be decided finally in Washington...
Anne Ford, also by Gainsborough, is the Cincinnati Art Museum favorite. The model later married one of Gainsborough's patrons, Sir Philip Thicknesse, who admired the painter for finishing "with his own hands every part of the drapery," instead of following the 18th century custom of letting an assistant do the costume...
Even though he made his millions from refrigerators, radios, scalp exercisers, bed coolers and sundry other gadgets, Powel Crosley Jr.'s first love was always the automobile. Seven years ago, the 6 ft. 4 in. Cincinnati millionaire decided to satisfy his passion. For $19 million he sold all his other interests to Aviation Corp. (now Avco), concentrated on making midget Crosley autos. His goal was to produce 150,000 cars a year, eventually bring the price down to $500. But Crosley fell far short of the mark...
Died. Fred Tenney, 80, first baseman for the Boston Braves and New York Giants and manager (1905-07 and 1911) of the Braves, who originated the "3-6-3" double play (first base to shortstop to first) in a game against the Cincinnati club in 1897; in Boston. One of the great fielding first basemen of his day, Tenney led the National League in assists for eight years, an alltime record...
...most of Hollywood's producers watched with envious amazement, crowds in Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Indianapolis flocked to see Kong brought back alive from a Pacific island to Manhattan, where he climbs the Empire State Building clutching the beauteous and screaming Fay Wray (now fortyish and retired). There, raging defiantly at his puny pursuers, the monster finally gets shot down by a squadron of ancient biplanes...