Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planners not moving as fast as some people thought they should. The federal housing bill would help, but estimates were that 60,000 Pittsburghers needed low-rent housing. The best Pittsburgh could hope for was adequate housing by 1970. R. K. Mellon, Davy Lawrence and the others maintained that first things came first. Industrial Pittsburgh had to be rescued first; that was the foundation of the whole town's economy...
...probably the most significant project under way was the hole outside of R. K. Mellon's office. On the first eight floors of the 39-story skyscraper the Mellon National Bank will have its quarters. On the next 30 floors will be offices for U.S. Steel. On the 39th floor will be the offices of Big Steel's President Ben Fairless -and R. K. Mellon. Probably no single office floor in the U.S. would support such a weight of industrial power and influence...
...young New England lawyer, he had gone to Colorado when gold was pouring out of the fabulous Cripple Creek district. He got his share of the West's wealth, first as a lawyer, then as a financier of railroads, then as a banker, finally as an oilman. It was a heady day, when Denver was awash with new millionaires and old champagne bottles, and Henry Blackmer was the biggest spender and entertainer of all. He earned a reputation for blowing half a million dollars a year for 13 years...
...Russian bomb (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) struck with vastly varying impact. In some places, it cut deep along taut nerves; in others, it slid smoothly off the backs of nations long numbed by constant danger. Nowhere did it provoke the apocalyptic shudders which had attended the world's first atomic explosions; in the Atomic Year V, men still dreaded the unchained atom, but they had gotten used to the idea that they must live with it. The question was, how? How would the Other Bomb affect the great struggle between Communism and the West? How would it weigh...
...flat stretches of Flushing Meadows, fanned by autumn's first cool breezes, the red and yellow dahlias nodded cheerily. So did Andrei Vishinsky. "I," beamed the Soviet Foreign Minister on his arrival, "am optimistic by nature...