Word: johnstown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert A. Eckenrod Johnstown...
Frank Kush was the classic all-American success story. One of 15 children, he grew up in a company-owned house above coal Mine 35 outside Johnstown, Pa., won a football scholarship to Michigan State University, and in 1958 was named head coach at Arizona State in Tempe. There his Sun Devils became one of the toughest teams in the country. Kush's coaching record of 176 wins, 54 losses and one tie was second only to that of Alabama's Bear Bryant...
Teleprompter, the biggest MSO, with 1.2 million subscribers and revenues of $147 million last year, has had a yo-yo history. Founded in 1967 by Cable Visionary Irving Kahn, it expanded furiously by acquisition. Then, in 1971, Kahn went to prison, convicted of bribing officials in Johnstown, Pa., in order to get a franchise. Overexpansion and overborrowing from banks at high interest caught up with the company; in 1973 it lost $31 million. A new management team headed by Karp, a former treasurer of Columbia Pictures, has brought the company solidly back into the black. Last year it earned...
...million cases, worth $280 million wholesale). Before a bottle of liquor goes on sale at any of Pennsylvania's 750 "state stores," the board jacks up the price 48% for its own profit, then adds an 18% "emergency" tax levied decades ago to help victims of the 1936 Johnstown flood, and finally tacks on a 6% sales tax. When these taxes upon taxes are compounded, they amount to a markup of 85% for the state. Not surprisingly, Pennsylvanians try to purchase much of their liquor in neighboring states like Maryland, where a half-gallon oi whisky sells for about...
Considering this year's flood in Johnstown, drought in California, blackout in New York and the bitter winter followed by the extreme heat of the past summer, I believe the nomination should go to that unlovable old lady-Mother Nature...