Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pittsburgh, Willie Mays ran his consecutive game hitting streak to 19 with an eighth inning double, then scored the winning run a few minutes later as the New York Giants defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 tonight...
Brooklyn moved into a tie for second place with Milwaukee, as Don Newcombe shut out the Giants, 6 to 0. Chicago beat Milwaukee 6 to 1, while Philadelphia downed Pittsburgh...
...residence to get a glimpse. Next day Rospigliosi saw Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski closer up for a background talk. From Warsaw two TIME correspondents relayed their findings on the publicity-shy cardinal to the Bonn bureau, which incorporated exhaustive research among Polish refugees in Germany. In Pittsburgh TIME'S correspondent interviewed U.S. travelers who had recently seen Wyszynski. Result: the first comprehensive story on the man whose experiment in coexistence brought religious freedom to Poland and probably saved the country from Hungary's fate. See RELIGION, Cardinal & the Commissar...
...Angeles last week a young mother walked into the newly opened Rollins Charge-A-Car Co., put down $12 and rented a baby buggy for three months. In San Francisco a businessman was negotiating to rent two four-engined planes, worth $4,500,000, through Commercial-Pacific Corp. In Pittsburgh a shipper was dickering with National Equipment Leasing Corp. to rent a 15-tanker fleet costing $126 million. On land, sea and air there is a nationwide boom in equipment leasing, and rental companies are sprouting across the U.S. to supply everything from oil barges to a fleet of diesel...
...Pittsburgh's National Equipment Leasing Corp. has gone after its business so aggressively that it claims to be the biggest diversified lessor of all. Since it first branched out of car rentals in 1954, National Equipment has leased about $35 million worth of equipment. Volume this year alone may come close to $100 million, although the company still works out of a six-man, one-room office...