Word: pa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Allcntown, Pa...
...clangs and hoots echoed through the ship, officers and men tumbled out of bunks, rushed headlong for battle stations. No one seemed to hear the PA system's agitated plea: "Belay that last order!" Meanwhile, the bridge pirates headed for the officers' quarters. Finally a steward asked them the question no one had thought of before: "What are you doing here?" "Of course," says Lennon, "we didn't have any answer...
ELIZABETH M. HODGSON McKeesport, Pa...
...Alger Hiss walked out of the Lewisburg (Pa.) federal penitentiary in December 1954-on parole after serving 44 months of a five-year sentence for perjury -he carried under his arm a package wrapped in Manila paper. Assuming that the package held his notes and papers, reporters asked if he intended to write a book. Replied Hiss: "I certainly intend to do some writing." Last fall the literary grapevine buzzed with the news that Manhattan Publisher Alfred Knopf had bought the Hiss manuscript, and the gossip columns predicted that it would be one of the sensations of the year...
...Steel, which five years ago began work on developing direct-reduction pilot models at its South Chicago plant, is now designing an almost commercial-sized plant which it is considering locating at its Fairless Works in Bucks County, Pa. ¶Republic Steel Corp. and National Lead Co. have formed a joint corporation to promote adoption of their R-N rotary-kiln process developed in Birmingham. Unlike the other processes, this one employs a solid carbon fuel instead of a reducing gas. ¶Arthur D. Little, Inc. (TIME, April 1) is developing its own process, using patents from the Esso Research...