Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME [MARCH 30] CITES KDKA OFF AIR FOR AN HOUR DURING RECENT FLOOD ACCOUNT POWER FAILURE. THIS STATEMENT IN ERROR. WITH EXCEPTION OF ONE 15-SECOND POWER FLUCTUATION, KDKA WAS NOT OFF AIR DUE TO LOSS OF POWER OR ANY OTHER REASON DURING FLOOD PERIOD. THIS MAY BE CONFIRMED BY WEST PENN POWER COMPANY AND OUR RECORDS. DWIGHT A. MYER Operations Manager KDKA Pittsburgh...
Sirs: Your account of the Pittsburgh flood [TIME, March 30] is excellent. I expected it would be. One little error has crept in. This is not surprising for the same error appeared in one of the Pittsburgh dailies. I refer to the statement that guests of the Roosevelt Hotel were marooned without food or water. In justice to the hotel management, I believe this should be corrected. As one of the 575 guests during the flood I know that, working under great difficulties, the hotel served meals regularly, plenty of good plain food. To cook it they were obliged...
However, Messrs. Grace & Irvin were in perfect harmony on one subject-prospects for the steel industry over the next few months. Having suffered a sharp set-back during the period when Pittsburgh mills were under flood water, the industry last week more than recovered all lost ground, operations rising to 64½% of capacity. Iron Age, amazed by the demand for steel for immediate use. particularly from the auto mobile industry and construction projects in flood areas, predicted still further improvement in the most basic of U. S. industries. In Washington Messrs. Grace & Irvin revealed that their respective companies were...
Richard R. Flood has been appointed chairman of the Freshman Smoker Committee. His assistants will be Elliot C. Bacon, John F. Bowen, Charles L. Burwell, George H. Earle, 4th, William C. Flinn, Harry R. Harwood, Donald MacDonald, Hugh L. McNeil, Robert W. Sarnoff, and Clifford W. Wilson...
...Unprecedented flood conditions are responsible. . . . Part of the magazine is printed in Chicago and part in Philadelphia. Several carloads en route from Chicago to Philadelphia were caught in the flood area of Pennsylvania. ... It has been necessary for us to go back to press and reprint...