Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles 51.0 Atlanta 44.7 St. Louis 43.8 Denver 39.3 Seattle 39.3 Newark 37.4 Houston 35.3 Dallas 35.2 San Francisco 34.8 New Orleans 29.2 Detroit 28.0 Indianapolis 26.5 Cleveland 23.0 Minneapolis 21.2 Boston 21.0 Pittsburgh 20.0 New York City 17.7 Philadelphia 16.9 Cincinnati 16.0 Kansas City 13.3 Chicago 12.9 Buffalo...
...entire system together, CAA plans a series of giant computers at major traffic centers to keep track of each plane, guide it safely along the airways. By mid-1959 CAA hopes to have computer centers at New York, Washington, Boston, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago and Detroit, add new cities at the rate of six each year. But by next winter, when the first big jets start whistling along the already crowded airways, there will be only one computer operating for certain, and that one on an experimental basis in Indianapolis...
...spinosity, serriform and caliginous, choked up on chiaus. Only four spellers were left: Stanley A. Schmidt, 14, entrant of the Cincinnati Post and station WCPO (each contestant was escorted by a markedly unobjective newsman from his home-town paper); Terry Madeira, 13, Harrisburg Patriot and News; Tina Strauss, 13, Pittsburgh Press: and 14-year-old Jolitta Schlehuber, Topeka Capital...
...syllable, asked if it could be pronounced "dye . . ." That pronunciation was wrong, but she was told to go ahead. When she misspelled the word (only one s). judges decided that she had been misled. Jolitta was allowed to try Quincunx. She spelled it, and, in spite of protests from Pittsburgh Pressman Joe Williams, Tina's escort, the deadlock continued...
University of Pittsburgh Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher. New York Times LL.D...