Word: johnstown
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This week, as the Northeast mopped up, the 1955 flood went down in Weather Bureau records as one of the most disastrous in U.S. history. The toll of dead and missing passed 250 and was still rising (the worst on record: the Johnstown Flood of 1889, when more than 2,000 perished), and last week's damage was estimated at well over $1.5 billion...
...year-old Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, dean of American trackmen, Nashua went to Hialeah boasting a fine record as a two-year-old-six victories in eight starts-and a promising contender for the Kentucky Derby. Mr. Fitz, already a winner of three Derbys (Gallant Fox, 1930; Omaha, 1935; Johnstown, 1939), has brought him along slowly. Petted and pampered, watched and worried over like a prince, Nashua may work the kinks out of his legs in one more race before the Flamingo, but the Flamingo is the big race on his schedule, and he is ready. "He's a good...
...Just Plain Silly." Next day, at a Chamber of Commerce meeting in Johnstown, Pa., quite another view of automation was advanced by U.S. Steel's Chairman Benjamin Fairless. Said he: "Automation has become a menacing word-a kind of modern bogeyman with which to frighten our people." Fairless went on to show why he thought the fears "just plain silly." Was not the telephone industry the prime example of automation, with its increased use of dial phones? Yet between 1940 and 1950, said Fairless, the number of telephone operators in the U.S. increased...
Died. William Woodward, 77, millionaire Wall Street banker and breeder of thoroughbred race horses, whose Belair Stud farm produced three Kentucky Derby winners (Gallant Fox in 1930, Omaha in 1935, Johnstown in 1939); in Manhattan...
Edward R. Benton, Milwaukee, Wisc.; John C. Disnmore Jr.; Boston, Mass.; Robert G. Fakin, Shaker Hghts, Ohio; William D. Geer Jr., New York, N. Y.; David F. Hawkins, Australia; James D. Hays, Johnstown, N. Y.; John S. Holcenberg, Seattle, Wash.; John G. Johnson, Des Moines, Iowa; Lawrence C. Jordan, Denver, Col.; James P. Jorgensen, W. Palm Beach, Fla.; Abba J. Kastin, Cleveland Hghts, Ohio; Richard L. Plaut Jr., New York City; David P. Segel, Newton, Mass.; Richard M. Stenson, Sioux Falls, S. Dak.; Robert H. Washer, Rockville, Center, N. Y.; Joseph B. Yeaton, Hamilton, Mass.; Noble Smith, Marblehead, Mass.; Steven...