Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when silver was discovered in Leadville, the barren ravines leading to California Gulch swarmed with feverish thousands. In the gambling halls and Sallie Purple's fancy parlors, the bonanza kings strutted and roistered. "Haw" Tabor brought in the rich Little Pittsburgh, then the $10 million Matchless. Silver was everywhere a man might throw his pick, and the picks were thrown everywhere. The picks were sold by Charles Boettcher who, in the end, found a slower but surer bonanza...
Lois Henderson, age 22, was graduated from Wilson College in 1947 with an English major, Classical Languages minor . . . [She] obtained her first job in Pittsburgh selling notions in a department store, take-home pay $22.50 a week...
Spoor. In Pittsburgh, Marshall Johnson was sentenced to a term in jail for burglary, after he had left at the scene of he crime 1) his fingerprints, 2) his social security number, 3) a picture of his wife...
...left-this week, in fact-he had to deal with the standpatters. Despite the forces arrayed against him, Big Jim was not without weapons of his own. His rear was secure. The Republican organization of western Pennsylvania, led by Banker Richard Mellon, was solidly behind him. The Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) delegates had already announced their intention of following his lead. Above all, he would still be governor of the state for 2½ more years, with 40,000 state jobs at his disposal...
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). A wag once tried to describe this fustian piece: "It is he, the Hero, and he has been drinking again. He is in E flat, and his cuffs are soiled by numerous dissonances . . . Four plain-clothes detectives come in on a sharp glissando, and, seizing the Hero, throw over his head a dark-tasting chord . . ." Performance: good. Suite from Der Rosenkavalier (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Some of the pleasantest music Richard Strauss ever wrote, pleasingly played. Recordings: good...