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Fuqua got a listing on the New York Stock Exchange in 1965 by obtaining controlling interest in Natco Corporation, a Pittsburg, Pa., based tile manufacturer. In 1965, Natco's revenues were $14 million and its stock was selling far below board level. In 1967, when the company was renamed Fuqua Industries, revenues climbed to $60 million and in 1968 topped $200 million...
...determined to see the famous overpass where the Battle of River Rouge (so the scuffle is called) took place. We also wanted to see how cars are made. (A provincial New Englander, I had seen textile factories and shoe factories, but hadn't seen the heavy industry in the Pittsburg-to-Chicago belt...
Catinella blitzed Syracuse's Tony Lezard, S.O. in his opening bout at 134, but was then eliminated by Dave Wylie of Pittsburg, 5-4. in a bout that had more than its share of questionable calls. Because Wylie did not advance past the third round. Catinella did not go into the consolation rounds...
...getting too the lead,"--they visited old friends in white spats and sharkskin suits. The Wellesley Kid bought a round of drinks. A. G. Vanderbilt and wife were there for light conversation. A very live spirit from the past--when Arnold Rothstein won $850,000 on Sidereal, when Pittsburg Phil was in his heyday, when Diamond Jim Brady and Subway Sam Rosoff ate much and bet more, when a "handy guy like Sande was bootin' them babies in," and when the Grand Union Hotel would serve any dish if there was twenty-four hour notice. There is still some...