Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SUTTON Pittsburgh...
...gallery of Paris' Musee National d'Art Moderne had been transformed into a gleaming room swimming in diffused light and housing what was unquestionably the hit of the show: a handsome cross section of contemporary U.S. archi-texture. Among the large scale-models and ceiling-high photomurals: Pittsburgh's aluminum-sheathed Alcoa Building, Manhattan's stilt-borne Lever House, Chicago's glass towers by Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright's laboratory for the Johnson Wax Co. in Racine, Wis. Spotlighted in a second gallery, blacked out with velvet draperies, were...
...reported. General Tire & Rubber Co. announced that in its first fiscal quarter (from Dec. 1, 1954 through Feb. 28) it made a profit of $2,236,310 on sales of $63,574,233 v. a profit of $1,851,515 on sales of $44,130,274 a year ago. Pittsburgh Coke & Chemical Co., operating at about 85% of capacity in the first quarter v. 50% a year ago, said that its earnings are "much better" than 1954. Parke, Davis announced that first-quarter sales in 1955 were 12% ahead of last year and net profit showed a "substantial increase." Raybestos...
...Pittsburgh, Westinghouse Electric Corp., which is already building a nuclear reactor for the world's first atomic power plant and a $2,000,000 atomic research center, announced a new plan to make Pittsburgh the "atomic capital of the world" by building a second $6,000,000 lab to do research and development work on peacetime uses for the atom...
Whitey Ford of the New York Yankees pitched a two-hitter as the Yanks crushed the Washington Senators, 19 to 1. At Ebbets Field, Carl Erskine of the Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates...