Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greyhound service in Boston and Philadelphia stood still. Elsewhere, in widely varying degrees of regularity, bus schedules were maintained, though there was a sharp drop in traffic. Busses still rolling entered the terminals well splashed with ripe tomatoes. Tires were slashed, windows stoned. In Washington, eleven pickets were arrested for forcing a bus to the curb and beating the driver. Five men were arrested in Springfield, Ill. for the same tactics, while four others were picked up for investigation as alleged "strongarm guards" employed by the company...
...William Seifriz of the University of Pennsylvania lives a quiet bachelor's life in Chester Springs, collects old Italian bronze and French porcelain, permits no telephone in his house. At his ground-floor laboratory in Philadelphia he good-humoredly allows an impertinent squirrel to come in by the window, make off with chocolate bars and filter paper. Squirrels, however, are not Dr. Seifriz' favorite pets. On a far greater favorite of his he last week performed an experiment with extraordinary results...
...William A. Waugh, with first obtaining the pure vitamin: "On April 4, 1932, after seven years of continuous work, King finally isolated fifty milligrams from one litre of lemon juice, and identified the pure crystals. . . . Before scientists gathered at a meeting of the American Society of Biological Chemistry at Philadelphia, King described his method and exhibited some of the crystals. Mc-Collum,* who was in the audience, rose to give King his scientific blessing for having made a great scoop for American Chem-istry...
...Warren, Ohio, every May, is seven years old, attracts Welsh from Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, the rural and mining areas of Ohio and West Virginia. Smaller eisteddfods are held, usually on New Year's Day, in such Pennsylvania industrial centres as Wilkes-Barre. Plymouth. Kingston, Allentown, and in Philadelphia. New York and Los Angeles...
...pocket billiards (vulgarly called "pool"), pale, dark-haired Ralph Greenleaf ranks about tops, has been champion most of the time for 15 years. Last week in Philadelphia Billiardist Greenleaf and lantern-jawed Billiardist Irving Crane each had eight victories and three defeats after a three weeks' tournament among twelve top-ranking players. In the eleventh inning of the playoff, Crane, having scratched five times, found himself with a total of minus one to Greenleaf's 49. Then Billiardist Greenleaf strode to the table and started sinking balls so fast that one had scarcely thudded into a pocket before...