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...worst December flood ever in Pennsylvania, a State famous for its flood records and the Johnstown horror of 1889, came mouthing the floating remains of chicken houses, sheds, fence rails and even sections of the fields. The flood drove workers from their lowland mills and homes. A dozen war plants stopped their lathes, cooled furnaces before the river could walk in and explode against them...
...Overpowering for good the three rivers* which converge menacingly on Johnstown, Pa., horribly deluged...
...tons (11%) of new pig-iron capacity, recommended by OPM last month, is scheduled to arise. In addition to enlargement and rehabilitation of existing blast furnaces, the pig-iron program includes ten new furnaces: one each at Gadsden and Birmingham, Ala., Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio (for Republic Steel), at Johnstown, Pa. and Lackawanna, N.Y. (for Bethlehem), at Braddock, Pa. (for U.S.), at Pueblo, Colo, (for Colorado Fuel & Iron), two at Indiana Harbor (for Inland). At Provo, Utah (or perhaps at Pittsburg, Calif.) U.S. Steel's Columbia works is due to get three more blast furnaces, to be shipped second...
Angelo V. Jannelli was close to tears as he joined the long line plodding up the gangplank. He had been Italy's consular agent at Johnstown, Pa. since 1932, had not seen his own country for over 30 years. Said Agent Jannelli: "I've thought of the United States as my home." In Fort Worth, Tex., 72-year-old Consular Agent Atillio Ortolani won permission from the State Department to stay in the U.S. Married to a British wife, with two sons in the U.S. armed forces, Agent Ortolani said he would rather go to a concentration camp...
Married. Ethel Woodward, socialite daughter of Banker-Sportsman William Woodward, owner of three Kentucky Derby winners (Gallant Fox, Omaha, Johnstown); and Philippe de Croisset, veteran of Dunkirk, son of the late Parisian Playwright François de Croisset; in Manhattan...