Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greenblatt, had a gauze-packed socket, into which a glass eye soon would be set. His extracted eye had had a tumor. His other eye was good. But Nordic Ferguson's other eye was bad. It bore a cataract, an opaque thickening of the cornea that prevented light images going through his pupil and striking upon his retina. So hopeless was his case that he had become an inmate of Manhattan's Home for the Blind. And he is only...
...Every motor car would be headed for the scrapheap; every loudspeaker would be silent; every telephone would 'go dead'; every electric light would go out. The gloveless surgeon would be unable to perform his life-saving operations. . . . Contemporary man could not get along. . . . Life would be devoid of half its conveniences and comforts...
...fitting, therefore, that when Duquesne Light planned its new development, the company should honor a former official, a famed son of Pittsburgh. Entirely fitting, too, was the invitation to Lawyer Reed's son to speak at the dedication. Smart son of a smart father, and smart namesake of a smart granduncle, David A. Reed, 47, has many a distinction. He is a close friend of Andrew W. Mellon. He is, at the moment, both senior and junior U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania, because Philadelphia's Vare has not yet been admitted to the U. S. Senate...
Silver spade cut lightly into Pittsburgh soil, scooped up a scant quart of mineral-laden earth. Ground had been broken for the $10,000,000 power plant of the Duquesne Light Co. on Brunot's Island in the Ohio River.* Celebrities and guests boarded the steamship Manitou, chatted away the half-hour trip from the Island back to the city proper. In the earth, the cut remained...
...LIGHT-OPEN THE NUNNERIES AND SAVE THE GIRLS