Word: allentown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Electric Bond & Share Co. affiliate). Although Pennsylvania Power already had contracts for emergency power from three other power companies and even from Bethlehem Steel, in 1928 it leased from Lehigh Valley Transit for $500,000 a year a turbo-generating plant at the corner of Front & Linden streets in Allentown. To date $4,300,000 has been paid for the rental of this emergency plant and in nine years it has been used twice- most recently for a few days during the 1936 floods. That time it had two weeks in which to get going, but to justify including...
...largest one in Warren, Ohio, every May, is seven years old, attracts Welsh from Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, the rural and mining areas of Ohio and West Virginia. Smaller eisteddfods are held, usually on New Year's Day, in such Pennsylvania industrial centres as Wilkes-Barre. Plymouth. Kingston, Allentown, and in Philadelphia. New York and Los Angeles...
Relative to comments of Roy J. Hadley Hertz on the characters and conventions of the Pennsylvania Germans [TiME, Aug. 30], it is inconceivable that this man could abide in the beautiful and clean city of Allentown for ten years and have the audacity to say the things he has, but of course it is possible he has not been accepted...
Quiet, exclusive, they will live by themselves, speaking bastard languages, growing fat, tending their flowers. Backwoods people, they live in the city of Allentown Queen of the Lehigh Valley, population about...
...Allentown...