Word: pittston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heaviest single toll was in Pittston, Pa., where the ice-clogged Susquehanna River tore away a railroad bed, gnawed a soft. hole into the weakened river bank, finally ate through a ceiling of the Pennsylvania Coal Co.'s big River Slope Mine. Without warning, 45 anthracite miners were washed waist-high by tomb-cold rising water. While emergency crews dumped telephone poles, bales of hay and even empty railroad gondola cars into the hole to block the water, 33 miners threaded through abandoned tunnels and shafts to safety. The other twelve were presumed drowned...
RAID ON BRINK'S By the New York holding firm of Pittston has caused an uprising within the armored car company. Brink's Chairman J. D. Allen has joined the raiders, sold 44,500 of his shares (at $36 apiece) to Pittston, which wants to merge the company with its own U.S. Trucking Co. But President H. Edward Reeves and four of the seven board members are fighting back, plan a showdown at the annual meeting March...