Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this better than Candidate Stevenson. Touring Pennsylvania last week, Stevenson drew good crowds but appeared weary and snappish (mourned friendly N.Y. Postman Murray Kempton: "It almost tears the heart to see Stevenson"). Although Adlai had been assured of Pennsylvania's 74 convention votes by Governor George Leader and Pittsburgh's Mayor David Lawrence, Stevenson remarked: "I can't be sure, of course, that I will retain their allegiance until next August." Estes Kefauver was in no better shape; his improved Gallup poll rating after the Minnesota primary could be expected to fall off after last week...
...CLIFLIN JR. Pittsburgh...
Died. Clarence ("Ginger") Beaumont, 79, farmer and oldtime baseball player, who broke into the game with the late Connie Mack's Milwaukee club and was the first player to bat in the modern World Series; in Burlington, Wis. Playing centerfield for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Ginger Beaumont stepped to the plate against the Boston Pilgrims' (now the Red Sox) famed Denton ("Cy") Young in the first (1903) Series game, flied...
...industry released the first batch of 1956 first-quarter earnings reports last week, it was apparent that, for the first three months, 1956 looked better even than record-breaking 1955. Steel led the field. Pittsburgh Steel turned in a $2,469,-624 net, 171% ahead of the same period last year, and Allegheny Ludlum earned $4,572,608, a handsome 92% better. Lukens Steel reported a 370% profit hike to $1,361,641, and President Charles Lukens Huston Jr. predicted that 1956 would bring the best sales and earnings in the company's 146-year history...
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