Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worry. Shut down by a strike was Aluminum Co. of America's plant at Edgewater, N. J., with $17,000,000 worth of orders for aluminum to go into the making of machinery of war. Strike-shut was Universal-Cyclops Steel Corp.'s plant in Bridgeville, Pa., chief makers of special kinds of steel used in fuses, machine guns. A strike of construction workers still held up expansion of the Army Air Corps testing centre at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio...
...next night, an eastbound five-car passenger train plunged off the Pennsylvania main-line track along the Ohio River, near Baden, Pa. The locomotive toppled over on its side. Coal from the tender avalanched into the cab, buried the engineer. Coaches full of shocked and tumbled people rolled into the river...
Regional planning for Protestant churches got its first big boost last week. The starting point: two able reports on population shifts and religious needs around Philadelphia, made at Allentown, Pa. to the annual Methodist Conference for the Philadelphia area. Impressed, the delegates from the conference's 322 churches and missions voted a ten-year, $250,000 program by way of starter...
Divinity School scholarships to William P. McEwen, special student, of Boston, Mass.; Wililam H. Maurer, gr.Dv., of Bethlehem, Pa.; and Kenneth A. L. Viall, gr.Dv., of Cambridge, Mass...
...best male acting (The Philadelphia Story). As the wassail ended. Banquet Chief John LeRoy Johnston was last seen frantically bellowing into the microphone for winners "and Miss Lunt and Mr. Fontanne" (sic) to go below for newsreels. Ginger gushed a tribute to "my mother." Jimmy Stewart telephoned his pa in Indiana, Pa. Pa said bring the Oscar home, and there would be another unveiling in the Stewart hardware store...