Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania steel plants, thus cut freight costs in half. But the required state legislation has not yet been passed. Coal can be transported in other ways, e.g., by converting it into electricity near the mine site, by converting it into gas and shipping it by pipeline. Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. has tested a system for pulverizing coal, mixing it with water and pumping it through pipes in liquefied form...
Ties That Bind. In Pittsburgh, Parole Violator Myron Young, 27, left his wife Margaret, begged police to ship him back to the prison farm, explained that he would rather do forced labor "than live with that woman...
...such cities as Chicago, San Francisco, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and St. Louis, which have no local rent control laws, most landlords were planning to raise rents a minimum of 10% to 15%. On lower-priced apartments, increases might run as high as 80%. Many cities set up Fair Rent Committees,' which will try to mediate disputes between landlords and tenants, but without real enforcement powers. Fearful that rent gouging would provoke enactment of local rent-control laws, the bigger real estate men announced that they would hold increases down to 10 or 15%, pleaded with other landlords...
After Princeton, Stockly took on odd jobs, including a stint in a steel-mill, while pestering Pittsburgh newspapers to hire him. Finally, the Sun-Telegraph agreed to give him a job if he would work a trial month without salary. Stockly agreed, and after a month he was on the payroll at $30 a week. Eleven months later, he was off the payroll with the editor's prediction that he would never become a writer...
...profits sharply this year as mills worked at capacity. Republic Steel's President Charles White reported a net of $14,931,475 v. $4,502,543 in last year's second quarter. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. earned $2,163,275 for the quarter v. $889,425, and Pittsburgh Steel Co. reported first half earnings of $3,826,612 v. $674,891 a year...