Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried the New York World-Telegram: "Never in the history of American business have the many students of corporate doings been so confused. . . ." The confusion was over strange doings in the stock of Pittsburgh's small (total assets: $12 million) Follansbee Steel Corp...
Girl Trouble. In Palo Alto, Calif., 100-lb. Mrs. Velma O'Day, angered by policemen who were questioning her, sent three to the hospital by kicking one of them, breaking another's rib, jabbing a cigarette in the third one's eye. In Pittsburgh, Nathaniel Evans won a divorce after he testified that his wife had threatened him (with a souvenir pistol), stabbed him (with a souvenir bayonet), and struck him (with a miniature Statue of Liberty...
...barrel," said Big Jake Kramer, "I'll beat him fifty straight matches without easing off." But things didn't work that way. Jake got the jitters in his pro tennis debut at Madison Square Garden, and lost badly to Pro Champ Bobby Riggs (TIME, Jan. 5). In Pittsburgh, Jake caught a cold, and lost again to Bobby. Then Jake got back some of his confidence by winning match No. 3 in Cleveland. Last week, after their tenth match in the tenth city on their U.S. tour, Jake was beginning to look better. Bobby Riggs, however, wasn...
Last week from Pittsburgh, where Mike runs his scattered ventures from the Benedum-Trees skyscraper, came word of a still newer Benedum venture. His recently formed Melben Oil Co., which had spent $1,000,000 exploring for oil along Texas' coast, leased 120,480 acres of tideland area from Texas for $1,383,467. From a specially equipped $500,000 float, Mike Benedum will soon start drilling under the Gulf of Mexico...
...Pittsburgh Symphony (Sat. 3 p.m., NBC). Alexander Gretchaninov's Fifth Symphony; excerpts from Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Czar Saltan...