Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Theodore Kaufman (Kaufman & Baer, Pittsburgh): . . . Pittsburgh has suffered...
...long-haired bimboes, the pool-parlor cowboys, street-sheiks, bullyboys, soda-jerkers, danced with their minnies from the sticks, sundae-sallies with naughty eyes. Mayor Stoney gave the prize to Freddie Danidel and Anna Duvall of Memphis as the best from the South; to Thomas Nolan, Shelba Singer of Pittsburgh, for the East; to Donald Wilson, Louise Stoner of Wichita, for the West; to Lyman Curry, Katherine Osbourne of Chicago, for the North...
...common laborer. But he was alert, had already begun consciously to train his now superb memory, studied night and day, and in 14 months was rated a mechanic; by 21 he was foreman over 300 men; at 30 a master supersalesman and general manager of the important Pittsburgh Wire Co. of Braddock, Pa. He knew more about the mining, the processing and the utilization of steel than nine-tenths of his customers, to whom he sold intelligently and helpfully...
High grade garages couple such work with ordinary storage and washing service. None has found it more profitable than a group of capitalists and practical automobile men operating garages in Detroit, Chicago and Pittsburgh. Last week this group incorporated for $500,000 in Michigan as National Garages, Inc., and announced its intention to construct standard garages under one management in Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Dallas, Rochester and Manhattan...
...scientists at Yale, Harvard and Columbia were far from satisfied. "Inconclusive, premature," they called the Pittsburgh tests (TIME, May 11). So U. S. Surgeon General Hugh S. Gumming called a conference of manufacturers, scientists and health officers, the sense of which was that a thoroughgoing reinvestigation should be made. Dr. Gumming appointed a committee: Professor W. H. Howell of Johns Hopkins, chairman, and Drs. Julius Stieglitz (University of Chicago), Reid Hunt and David L. Edsall (Harvard University), C.E. A. Winslow (Yale University), W. S. Leathers (Vanderbilt University) and Albert J. Chesley (Minneapolis...