Word: clairton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow, a 33-year-old Clairton, Pa. girl named Annabella Bucar announced that she had been secretly married to a Russian singer, quit her job in the U.S. Embassy to become a Soviet housewife. Back in the U.S. her father, an Austrian immigrant, immediately disowned...
Bituminous production dropped an estimated 1,500,000 tons a day. By week's end, Carnegie-Illinois reported that the mammoth coal pile at its Clairton byproducts plant had shrunk to 200,000 tons, enough for only six days of operation. Shut for want of coke was the hot-strip mill at U.S. Steel's modern Irvin works. One by one, in the nation's industrial center, open hearths were banked...
...enormous black caverns, grimy, goggled pygmies crawled through the gloom, eating while they worked, shuffling home after their eight hours to their ugly homes in Duquesne, Clairton, Homestead, on the cliffs of Pittsburgh's South Side. The grimy little men and their doings were far less spectacular than the infernal mills. But if the men quit, so would the white-hot flow of steel...
...with its flat, grimy coal barges, the railroad tracks with their chuffing, endless trainloads of coal and iron-on up through the tough steel towns went Wendell Willkie. The workers listened. There were boos; but everywhere they listened: at Hays, at Homestead (scene of the 1892 massacre), at Duquesne, Clairton, Wilmerding. Solid walls of factories blossomed with masses of dirty-faced workers, like tenement flowerpots, who cheered and waved, laughing, sometimes jeering. Children, white, black, yellow, many times screamed derision; but Willkie's evangelical earnestness won their parents' respectful attention. Even in polyglot Homestead, where the police motorcycles...