Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME'S story about the Newfoundland dog [Sept. 5] regrettably made no reference to the most famous Newf of them all: Captain Meriwether Lewis' faithful companion Scannon, purchased for $20 in Pittsburgh and a keen and able member of the corps of discovery during a journey of more than 6,000 miles. Scannon sometimes swam out to catch fledgling geese for the pot, helped keep ferocious grizzlies of the Missouri River country away from camp, and in May 1805, was credited with helping turn away a frightened buffalo that came close to trampling Lewis one night...
Linda L. Callon Pittsburgh...
...athletes making too much money? they wanted to know. Are high salaries ruining sport? With first basemen earning $250,000 a year, can anarchy be far behind? I had been traveling. Boston. Minneapolis. Pittsburgh. Toronto. Fort Worth. The landscape and the weather and the accents changed. The theme of the questions persisted. Money...
...baseball's pantheon, John Peter ("Honus") Wagner, the bowlegged shortstop of the Pittsburgh Pirates (1900-17), is a superstar's superstar. He was eight times National League batting champion, and among the first to be elected to the Hall of Fame. As a shortstop, he was unparalleled; as a hitter, formidable; and as a coach, respected. Yet today a growing number of savvy professionals value Wagner for an entirely different reason-the rarity of the 1910 baseball cards bearing his phiz...
...pact? ENA permits strikes over local issues, like job assignments, and some of these are involved in the ore walkout. But the big issue is a miners' demand that they collect incentive payments for increased production, as 85,000 workers in steel mills do. To U.S.W. officials in Pittsburgh, who gave their permission for locals at twelve mines to strike, whether any particular mill or mine grants incentive payments is a local issue, unrelated to the general wage level set by national contracts negotiated under ENA. To the companies, that argument is sophistry: in their view the miners simply...