Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Outmanned, outgunned and outfought, a lame and lackluster collection of American League All-Stars took an embarrassing beating from their National League rivals in Washington's Griffith Stadium, 7-3. With a line-up heavily larded with Cincinnati Redlegs (five of the starting nine), superb pitching by Pittsburgh's Bob Friend and New York's Johnny Antonelli and some acrobatic fielding by St. Louis' Third Baseman Ken Boyer, the National Leaguers led all the way to win their sixth of the last seven games...
...week (see below), the pinch was starting to hurt retailers in some steelmaking areas, though many were trying to bolster sales with generous credit terms (see cut). The Federal Reserve Board reported that department-store sales for the week were down 1% in the Chicago area, down 6% in Pittsburgh. But it will still be some time before sales are badly hurt. One of the most notable things of 1956 so far is the way Detroit merchants keep on selling in the face of heavy auto layoffs totaling 280,000 Michigan workers. While sales usually dip with the employment curves...
...sure of herself in all other respects, however. Intelligent, mature, and serious-minded, she apparently takes completely in her stride the fact that she is now a nationally-known musical comedy star, whereas three years ago this summer she was just finishing her first year of drama school in Pittsburgh. That summer Shirley went to New York on a visit, was persuaded to audition for a theatrical agent, and within a week had a seven-year contract with Rodgers and Hammerstein. She never went back to drama school...
...manufacture, did so well that in World War II he headed up the 55-acre, Government-operated Research Enterprises (radar and optical firing equipment). Tall, balding, an unbending pillar of Toronto society, Phillips is already president of two corporations (Duplate Canada, Fiberglas Canada), board chairman of another two (Canadian Pittsburgh Industries, Argus Corp.), chairman of the board of governors, University of Toronto. C| Carlos E. Allen Jr., 51, was appointed $50,000 a year president of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank, succeeding Clifford Young, who retired earlier this year. His selection ended months of joint search by FRB Chairman William...