Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Iowa's Henry Wallace stopped his presidential campaign motorcade in Pittsburgh, hopped out and footed it for 20 minutes up & down a hillside...
...also was a member of the Red Sox in 1918 and the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1925 when these teams won pennants, making McInnis one of the few participants in six World series...
...tragedy of incompatible blood types (Rh-positive and Rh-negative) causes some married couples to condemn their own babies to death in infancy-or even before birth. Last week slim, brunette Mrs. Bettina B. Carter, 38, of Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pittsburgh, told the Pennsylvania State Medical Society of a possible remedy...
...plump, stubby and explosive fellow on the podium, he took over the Cincinnati Symphony from famed Eugene Ysaÿe, gave it nine of the best years of its life. In Pittsburgh, which he quit last spring after a fight over managerial economies, he was known as a martinet who knew how to command good music. But all these years Fritz Reiner has been hankering for his old love. "A conductor must conduct opera," he says. "His life is not complete unless he does...
...consent decree before a circuit court last week, U.S. Steel Corp. gave up a 24-year court fight to save the "Pittsburgh plus" basing-point system of setting steel prices. The company promised to adhere "to a pricing method that does not conflict with the requirements of the Federal Trade Commission." But U.S. Steel, which had voluntarily abandoned basing points when they were outlawed in the cement industry (TIME, July 19), had not given up the fight for good; it had merely shifted the battleground. What it had lost in the courts, Big Steel, and all other steelmakers, hoped...