Word: pittsburgh
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...most feared secret police agencies in the world. It uses terror and torture to achieve its ends....(There is) documentary evidence that SAVAK agents...commit burglaries, forgeries and other crimes in behalf of the Shah. Dr. Richard Cottam, a political science professor at the University of Pittsburgh, (said) that a trusted State Department source had warned him that Iranian hit squads were on their way to the United States..........................."I was told by someone I completely trust," alleged the professor, "that SAVAK had made the decision to send assassination squads into Europe and the United States. The guess within...
This time matters may be different. Though steel mills are still operating at only 72% of capacity, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel, one of the companies announcing an increase, claimed that flat-rolled products are selling especially well. National Steel, which led the increase, added that the boost would "only partially" recoup rising costs for materials, labor and freight. Significantly, Armco, the company that torpedoed the October rise, joined this...
Peterson said that Gibbens, who holds a Ph. D. from the University of Pittsburgh in the economics of education, was instrumental in improving fundraising at Yankton College...
...your Adjutants should choose to emulate me). However, the means of Publick convayence were decidedly inferior then to what they have become today. I do certify that, to travel from the Hermitage to Washington, I myself had to board a flatboat and then a steamboat, disembarking at Pittsburgh to complete another arduous journey by overland stagecoach. Even the lure of a day in the capital could not persuade more than a Fraction of my ardent partisans to undergo weeks of such travail...