Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, St. Louis, Cincinnati and a dozen other cities, buses and streetcars have been wired for sound. (Moaned a Washington bus rider: "Wasn't it Hitler who tried to drive the Austrian chancellor crazy by forcing him to listen to the radio?") In many places, including Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh and southern New England, grocery stores were blaring music and commercials. (Stanley Joseloff, president of Storecast Corp. of America, said happily: "It's radio plus. We get a 100% listening audience at the point of sale because everyone who's there has to hear...
Only in housing were the planners not moving as fast as some people thought they should. The federal housing bill would help, but estimates were that 60,000 Pittsburghers needed low-rent housing. The best Pittsburgh could hope for was adequate housing by 1970. R. K. Mellon, Davy Lawrence and the others maintained that first things came first. Industrial Pittsburgh had to be rescued first; that was the foundation of the whole town's economy...
From the open eye in the wall of the Union Trust, R. K. Mellon could look out on this reassuring vision. Here in $38 million of new buildings, Pittsburgh was asserting its iron-jawed belief in itself, and its iron-jawed confidence that it could set things right. The Allegheny Conference was an experiment in a new and wiser capitalism-working to repair the damage done by the purposeful haste and thoughtlessness of the old empire builders. If capitalism couldn't do it, the men of Pittsburgh were convinced, no one else could...
...Pittsburgh, far from the pennant hubbub, baseball fans were experiencing another kind of emotional turmoil. They had nothing but scorn for the impotent Pirates (who were 28 games out of first place), but they kept paying their way into Forbes Field to gaze, with the dewy-eyed reverence of Babylonian idol worshipers, upon big, amiable, good-looking Ralph McPherram Kiner. There was no doubt in any Pittsburgher's mind that easy-going Ralph was the biggest man in big-league baseball...
...three consecutive years, Kiner has hit 40 or more home runs, thus set a mark never equaled by such sluggers as Rogers Hornsby, Jimmie Foxx and Joe DiMaggio. Furthermore, the 26-year-old pride of Pittsburgh seemed to be improving with age. One night last week, with 50 homers to his credit, he stepped to the plate with 11,881 fans howling for him to hit another. With the National League's home-run record of 56 (set by Hack Wilson back in 1930) so close and time so short, Kiner's big problem was to keep from...