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...came Continental's big break. It merged with debt-ridden Pioneer Air Lines, giving Six 1,860 more route miles and access to the air hub of Dallas, gateway to a rich transcontinental traffic. By last year Continental's annual revenues had quadrupled since 1947 to $18.5 million. To its present 31 planes (ranging from two DC-7Bs to 15 DC-3s) it plans to add 22 new ones by 1959, a $62 million order that includes 15 Vickers Viscount propjets, four Boeing 707 turbojets...
...revival of Foundation Day. Last week Prime Minister Tanzan Ishibashi's ruling Liberal-Democratic Party proposed a bill in the current Diet session which would in effect revive Foundation Day. And at Kashihara Shrine near Nara, some 10,000 elderly Japanese streamed through the great wooden-pillared gateway to the inner shrine...
...Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., National Supply Co., Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., Peoples Natural Gas Co. Eventually ten buildings will sprawl over Gateway in a parklike setting of shaded walks, lawns, fountains...
...John Gunther passed through, held his nose and described it (in Inside U.S.A.) as "one of the most shockingly ugly and filthy cities in the world." Last week much-abused Pittsburghers looked around, held their breath, and i) heard plans for a null $12 million skyscraper for their bustling Gateway Center; 2) watched the barricades go up for a 17-story. $7,000.000, metal-sheathed monolith for Pittsburgh's H. K. Porter Co.; 3) got the designs for a $15 million, 800-room, new Hilton Hotel. Said Hotelman Conrad Hilton: "We have heard about the renaissance of Pittsburgh...
...start next year. On the downtown fringes, Pittsburgh is spending another $100 million to clean out the wormy Hill District slums-95 acres of cobbled streets, blighted homes, vice, crime and poverty. Much of it should be completed in time for Pittsburgh's 200th birthday party in 1958. Gateway to Heaven. Of the work already under way, builders are putting the finishing graces on the 16-story State Office Building, sheathed with striking blue aluminum panels; near by, the superstructure is pushing up for the twelve-story Bell Telephone Building. Both are rectangular slabs at Gateway Center, near...