Word: pittsburghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President and Chairman J. Leland Atwood, 62, of North American, and Willard F. Rockwell Jr., 53, president of Pittsburgh's automotive-parts-making Rockwell-Standard Corp., announced plans to merge into a new corporation to be known as North American Rockwell Corp. With sales of some $2.6 billion a year, the combine will rank among the top 15 U.S. corporations...
...Pittsburgh, at the same time, Rockwell had been planning to get into space-age technology, breezily predicting that Rockwell-Standard would soon be "a $1 billion corporation." Axles, springs and other vehicle parts still account for 65% of Rockwell-Standard's $636 million sales, though Founder and Chairman Willard Sr., 79, got a diversification drive off the ground in 1958, when he bought what is now the company's plane-making Aero Commander division. When Willard Jr. read of North American's plans in the press last September, he invited Atwood to Pittsburgh for talks...
...thing, he loved Boston, and rarely lost patience with any product of it, whether Irish politician or Negro activist. When they were contemptuous or angry, he took that in his stride. He was Harvard to many in Boston -- and he became Harvard to many in Hartford and Pittsburgh - and, because of that, he helped make real other educators' hopes of involvement in city schools...
...Other cities with high nonwhite school enrollment: Washington, 91%; Baltimore, 63%; St. Louis, 62%; Philadelphia, 58%; Detroit, 57%; Chicago, 53%; Los Angeles, 43%; Kansas City, 43%; Pittsburgh...
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