Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pittsburgh Symphony led the parade. Under the baton of William Steinberg, and with Violinist Isaac Stern as soloist, the up & coming Pittsburgh gave a high-spirited performance featuring Gustav Mahler's First Symphony and Modernist Bela Bartok's Violin Concerto. Listeners and critics were especially impressed by the orchestra's brilliance and enthusiasm...
...Others are in Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and Chapel Hill...
Sure, the Giants, Dodgers, Cubs, and Pirates have had good attendance despite losing seasons in the record past. But that hardly gives the inhabitants of New York, Brooklyn, Chicago, and Pittsburgh the right to crow about civic virtue and other such fairy tales...
...biggest U.S. cities had so distinguished a beginning as Perryopolis, Pa. (pop. 1,500), an unsung & forgotten hamlet in the coal fields 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. George Washington himself bought land on the town's present site back in 1770, and built a grist mill near by. According to local legend, he also suggested the circular-street plan upon which the village is built, although he sold out (1,643 acres for $4,000) long before 1814, when Perryopolis, named for Naval Hero Oliver Hazard Perry, was actually begun...
...been forced to have a "demand meter" (made by Westinghouse) installed, and pay a premium for the extra current, because it is an added load during the utility company's peak period. The ten-room house, tucked away in ten acres of woodland just eight miles west of Pittsburgh, was built by the Prices 16 years ago. Price always arrives with a bulging briefcase, but his wife tries to keep him from opening it and usually succeeds...