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...started this revolution is a beefy football jock who dropped out of college because he didn't think he was learning enough. Kirila grew up working the family farm in the shadow of the struggling steel mills of Pennsylvania's Shenango Valley, 60 miles north of Pittsburgh. He was as fascinated by manufacturing as some teenagers are by cars. In high school he was devising weight machines for his football teammates. An injury sidelined him in 1984, and he dropped out of Youngstown State University to get into the fitness-machine business. With a $500 deposit from a customer...
...hustle, short lines will go on being short. Their less than 2% share of total rail revenues last year was a tiny tweet amid the mighty roar of the main lines. Mergers, of course, still take place. The Lehigh & Susquehanna disappeared last year into the Reading, and the Mohoning & Shenango into the New York Central. But one thing is certain: in 1964, the nation's short lines are too various, too scattered-and too content with their tiny place in the sun-for another Pennsy or Central ever to emerge from them...
Liquidation. In New Castle, Pa., police, looking for a parking meter that someone had uprooted, found it at the bottom of the Shenango River...
...industry, which does a crack job of selling its products, often flops in trying to sell itself to the public. To see if there were a surer way to make friends as well as customers, 70 companies of the Mahoning and Shenango valleys, in northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania, formed a local organization called Industrial Information Institute, Inc. After rounding out its first year, I.I.I, last week had a pattern of local salesmanship that businessmen of other industrial regions could apply with profit...
...through a bill increasing the capacity of the Pittsburgh veterans' hospital by 300 beds. Because .of his Republican regularity, he does not openly agitate his liberalized pension scheme to which the Hoover Administration is opposed. His political dream is the improvement of the Beaver, Mahoning and Shenango rivers in his section. He got the War Department to survey these streams for possible developments. His critics declare that his activity for "pork barrel" legislation helps to keep him in his House seat. Outside Congress: Fairly well-to-do, he owns a row house in Foxhall Village, a development in Georgetown...
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