Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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GEORGE GOULD Pittsburgh...
...commission of the United States and Canada is working on plans and surveys. . . . The other is the Mississippi River system. This is almost entirely devoted to navigation. Work on the Ohio River will be completed in about three years. A modern channel connecting Chicago, New Orleans, Kansas City and Pittsburgh should be laid out and work on the tributaries prosecuted...
Died. Alfred Curtis Knox, 78, for 22 years Vice President of the Mellon National Bank of Pittsburgh, brother of onetime Senator Philander C. Knox; at Ben Avon, Pa., after a lingering illness...
...cast off the shackles of our timid middle-class culture. It sees and feels a new America-an America of steel and stone, of dynamos and blast furnaces. It sets itself to discover the new America that contains great corporations and great trade unions, New York skyscrapers, Chicago stockyards, Pittsburgh steel mills, Florida land-rushes. West Virginia strikes, Herrin massacres, Ku Klux Klans, Legions and Leagues, labor spies, tabloid newspapers, jazz, lynching, sports, mortgaged farms, farm trusts, romantic fiction magazines, movies, bunk morality, bunk religion, bunk politics, imperialistic adventures-the new America that all the rest of the world watches...
...year." . . . "Here's my check. Wrap the place up. Ill take it home with me." Just this, with a little more formality, is what Gimbel Bros, (of New York, Philadelphia and Milwaukee) did last week to the Kaufmann & Baer Co., one of the biggest department stores in Pittsburgh, whose business last year amounted to more than $16,000,000. After a conference in Philadelphia which ended at 4 o'clock in the morning, they signed papers which gave them 100% stock ownership...