Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...route were sold out-at $2 to $10 a throw. Street concessionaires posted their price lists: coffee, 15?; hot dogs, 20?. Washington hotels had been booked solid for months-some at triple the normal rate-and clamorous visitors were begging for sleeping space as far away as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh...
BartÓk: Concerto for Orchestra (the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 12 sides). The last to be recorded and possibly the finest of the late Béla Bartók's last great works. Fritz Reiner makes the wait worthwhile. Recording: good...
Lend an Ear was written for the Pittsburgh Playhouse just before the war. One version lasted two weeks in a summer theater in 1941; another opened this June in Los Angeles, where it is now entering its 26th week. The 18 numbers in the Broadway version include only four from the 1941 original. It had incubated so long that a straight-faced Latin number had to be rewritten as a parody of itself...
...Mathies Mine, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. put to work last week a machine that set up the rumble of revolution in coal mining. In 60 seconds, the "Continuous Miner" of the Joy Manufacturing Co. (TIME, April 5) ripped two tons of coal off the pitface and loaded it into a shuttle train...
...from now on, he will give a five-year scholarship to one boy from a different part of the U.S. "Private schools," says Barber, "justify themselves if, through their scholarships, they make it possible for all types of Americans to attend." Next year's type: a boy from Pittsburgh...