Word: pittsburghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imported ore, now buys 33% abroad. The guarantee of a 300-year supply of taconite ore, which produces twice as much pig iron per ton as natural ore and requires less coke and limestone in the steelmaking process, is luring new steel mills, traditionally centered in an arc around Pittsburgh, to the lower Lake Michigan area. Another lure: the rising demand for durable goods in the Midwest, where automakers, farm-machinery plants and appliance plants within a 400-mile radius of Chicago are hard-pressed to fill orders...
...York Central System is planning to build a 4,100-car marshaling yard near the new mills, is shifting three miles of the Central's New York-Chicago main line in the process. So strong is the future that Chicagoans have adopted a somewhat condescending attitude toward Pittsburgh. "In steel," says Inland's Vice President William Caples, "this is where the action...
JOHN W. SIMPSON Group Vice President Westinghouse Electric Corp. Pittsburgh...
...college football team that scores 48 points in a game ought to win. And down through the years, every team had-until Pittsburgh scored 48 two weeks ago against West Virginia. The game, as it turned out, wasn't even close: West Virginia...
...movement, and finished it all off with yards of ruffles and flourishes. When enough of the home-grown variety showed up on the street, store buyers decided it was a fad worth cashing in on. Selling at $10 to $15, store-bought grannies have spread to Chicago, Manhattan and Pittsburgh...