Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Griffith Stadium for the ceremony, for which 20,000 people paid from 90¢ to $2.50. The big spectacle included $5,000 worth of fireworks displays of a duck laying eggs, a naval battle, and of Sister Rosetta herself. The Superfelds, whose bookings now range from Charleston, S.C. to Pittsburgh, also have sponsored more conventional types of entertainment, e.g., Guy Lombardo, Billy Eckstine, George Shearing, and such road-show stage favorites as Don Juan in Hell, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial and John Brown's Body...
...osteogenesis imperfecta, an uncommon disorder in which the bones are so fragile that they snap under the slightest strain. She has had about 100 fractures (her parents have lost count), at least two simply from being startled. Last week Betty Sheaffer, 22, graduated from Stowe Township High School, near Pittsburgh, after 13 years of home instruction. Her chosen career : typist, working at home...
...Pennsylvania are all launching similar services; the New York Central, the Lehigh Valley, the Union Pacific and the Missouri-Kansas-Texas are also about to join the parade. The railroads are betting millions on piggybacking. The Pennsylvania, for example, in starting its piggyback service between New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Chicago, is spending $2,800,000 for 200 new flatcars. The New York Central expects to spend about $2,000,000 on six piggyback terminals along its line...
...United Steelworkers Union, have been hard at work understanding each other's problems. Taking time from their jobs, they made two-or three-day tours of some 40 steel plants together, talked to everyone from shop foremen to open-hearth workers, and got along famously. Last week in Pittsburgh, McDonald, who looks more like a corporation tycoon than Ben Fairless himself, presented his union's wage demands to U.S. Steel. Ben Fairless got a rude surprise. The demands were far stiffer than expected...
...sleepers. The son of a baggage master, Symes (rhymes with hymns) grew up near the tracks in his native Glen Osborne, Pa., got a job at 18 on the Pennsy. From clerk he was soon promoted to car tracer, to statistician in Cleveland, to freight movement director in Pittsburgh, to passenger superintendent in Chicago, to freight chief for the entire system. For the job he did heading up the Pennsy's western region during World War II, he was named operational vice president, then executive vice president. As a Pennsy executive, Symes pressed for diesels, modern passenger cars...