Word: monongahela
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...Pittsburgh, Paramount employes sought a picnic place in South Park, were offered choice Warner Grove, indignantly refused, took Monongahela Grove instead...
...these placarded, shuffling men spread through the arteries of commerce. Cars lay idle along the coal and ore railroads-the Pennsy, the Bessemer & Lake Erie, the C. & O. Work would soon slacken in limestone quarries, zinc smelters, silica diggings. Barge traffic thinned as the tires were banked along the Monongahela, the Allegheny, the Ohio Rivers. Snow lay undisturbed on the great, vermilion open pits of the Mesabi Range...
Fellow on a Furlough. But the Shinnston was just one of several tornadoes that raced up and down the Monongahela Valley one night last week, beginning near Pittsburgh and ending at Clarksburg, W. Va. Meteorologists say tornadoes usually spend themselves in 15 or 20 miles; these tornadoes together, striking almost simultaneously, laid waste a 100-mile area. Total dead...
...this crisis, many an oilman pinned his faith on a dull, devious, plodding form of transport that could never compete with pipelines or tankers for the coastal trade in times of peace. Barge tows of the inland waterways creep up the Mississippi, the Ohio, the Cumberland, the Monongahela, the Allegheny to upriver terminals, there transfer their oil to tank cars for the short haul east. Already Gulf loadings of river barges have doubled or tripled over last year. Loaded at Houston or Corpus Christi, the barges now thread their way through the shallows and marshes of the Gulf Coast...
First & foremost reason: John Lewis had ordered it. They made the strike all that John Lewis could have demanded. They not only walked out of the captive mines, they struck at mines already under contract-in the Allegheny County region around Pittsburgh, along the Monongahela River Valley, in the mountains of West Virginia. Only a few tried to keep on working. At Edenborn, Pa., a group of them posted themselves around the slate dump, fired on pickets with revolvers and shotguns, wounded more than a dozen...