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...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...
...rising dramatically from 5,000 acres that were wood lot and farmland less than a year ago. By 1954's end, if all goes according to plan, Levittown, Pa. will be a complete community, ranking in size with such older Quaker State sisters as Bethlehem, York, Lancaster, Johnstown and Chester...
Your Loving Friend. Eight months later, a letter came to Frank Hayostek back home in Johnstown, Pa. "I have found your bottle and note," the blue, slanting script told him. "I will just tell you the whole story. I live on a farm at the southwest coast of Ireland. On Friday, Aug. 23, 1946, I drove the cows to the fields beside the sea and then went for a walk on the strand called 'The Beal.' It is an inlet of Dingle...