Word: monongahela
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...chief objection to Kanawha, name ' of a West Virginia river, county, club, hotel, is that the abbreviation would be confused with Kansas. "Transylvania," an alternative, is disliked because of its asso ciation with Hungarian immigrants. Other suggestions: "Lincoln," "Wil son," "Monongahela...
Samuel Rea began as a clerk in a country store. At 16 he went railroading, and 31 found him, mature, assistant engineer in the construction of chain suspension bridges over the Monongahela at Pittsburgh. Finally, as head of the 12,000-mile system employing 250,000 men, he became one of the three or four dominating powers in American transportation. He is considered largely responsible for many features of the Esch-Cummins Transportation Act, whereby the roads were returned to private control...
...strike among the coal miners of western Pennsylvania has begun at Monongahela...