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Word: saltsburg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...declined an offer to go in his father's business ("Whoever got rich fitting shoes?"). Instead, he started out legitimately enough as a co-founder of the Eastern Investment and Development Corp., formed to specialize in industrial uplift of moribund towns; he helped revive tiny (pop. 1,800) Saltsburg, Pa. with a campaign that attracted three new industries with a payroll of about $1,000,000 annually. Then, perfumed with a reputation for good works, the E.I.D.C. group really started operating. Belle and his friends acquired control of Cornucopia Gold Mines, Inc., which owned a worked-out Oregon claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: The Boy Wonder | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Lloyd Clark had been headmaster of Kiskiminetas Springs School in Saltsburg, Pa. for only a few months when he got the jolt. It came in a casual conversation with Cornell's President Edmund Day at the Kiski-Cornell freshmen football game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: One at a Time | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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