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Piloting the Coal Queen, from Morgantown, W. Va. downstream (north) to Pittsburgh, took a little doing, what with pushing barges through the locks and threading through more traffic tonnage than passes through the Panama or Suez Canals. There wasn't much that didn't catch Pilot Bissell's eye, from the architecture (mostly horrendous) of the houses ashore to a little girl in a spring hat on a slate pile. He remembers the valley's favorite drink (cheap rye and a beer chaser), the variety of foreign tongues heard in saloons. "Oh, it's some...
...first journalistic use of teletypesetting. In 1918, the Morgantown (W.Va.) Post experimented with tape-fed typesetters, and in 1930 teletypesetting was put to group use by New York's Macy chain, was later widely adopted by others. In 1940, TIME modified the system for the simultaneous typesetting of identical magazines in Philadelphia and Chicago (and later Los Angeles) from one central New York composing room...
While it scoured the globe for new ore supplies, Bethlehem was not overlooking any in its own backyard. Last week the company announced that it will begin developing a body of magnetite ore near Morgantown, Pa., only 80 miles from Sparrows Point. The ore, lower grade than Venezuela's, was discovered last year by airborne prospectors using a Magnetometer (an adaptation of the magnetic detection devices which trapped Nazi submarines during World War II). Ore will start coming out of the Morgantown mines in 1953, and Pennsylvanians hope it will bring a revival of the state's once...
...current General Practice, Dr. David G. Miller and his wife, Registered Nurse Blanche Miller, describe some of their experiences in the 19303 around Morgantown, Ky. (pop. 859): "Long trips over poor or nonexistent roads, often time after time when the labor was long; the long hours spent in a lamplit home, with a flickering log fire that barely warmed our shins and left our backs freezing . . . Often we had been forced to change the mother's gown and bed and to improvise diapers, bands and clothing for the baby who had already been greased . . . We had even cooked...
Wind, bitter cold and the smothering snowfall put a dozen big cities and scores of smaller ones almost completely out of operation. In Pittsburgh and Cleveland, newspapers and department stores shut up shop, steel plants and hundreds of other industrial works closed down; in Akron, Youngstown and Morgantown, W. Va., thousands of automobiles, trucks, cabs, buses and police cars were stalled inextricably. National Guardsmen patrolled Cleveland to prevent looting and used Sherman tanks to tow stalled trucks and cars from the drifts...