Word: parkersburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advertisements, I come across the following notice: "The directors of Chrysler Corporation have declared a dividend of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per share on the outstanding common stock, payable September 13, 1939. . . ." I am a novice at economic matters, and I am confused. ARTHUR B. LOGAN Parkersburg, West...
...hour toward a 47-ft. crest, the river submerged residential Wheeling Island and the Red Cross ordered its 10,000 inhabitants evacuated. Bus and trolley service was virtually abandoned and, with mills crippled and mines flooded, 30,000 were jobless in the area. In the 100 mr. between Parkersburg and Huntington, thousands were driven from their homes. Not a store was open on Point Pleasant's Main Street as trucks hauled everything movable back into the hills. Synagogs and churches were turned into rescue stations and refugee barracks. The Baltimore & Ohio R. R. suspended operation on its Ohio Division...
David Rutstein, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennslyvania, S.B. Harvard '30, M.D. '34, in Bacteriology, until Feb. 1, 1937. Stephen D. Tuttle, of Parkersburg, West Virginia, A.B. Dennison University '29, A.M. Harvard '31, in Music, for the first half of the academic year...
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...Civil War, both Union and Confederate soldiers used the brushy island and the shelter of its huge old sycamores for a refuge. After that it was divided into small farms. In the 20th Century bootleggers made it a hideout. When he was a boy, Amos Kilgore Gordon of Parkersburg, W. Va. used to visit his grandfather's farm on Blennerhassett Island. He remembers swimming out into the river with his brother to collect driftwood logs washed down by the Johnstown Flood. When he grew up, he went to work for Standard Oil, is now vice president and treasurer...