Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Airways New York-Montreal line. Thompson Aeronautical Corp. carries passengers by amphibians to Detroit, and mail beyond to Ann Arbor, Bay City, Kalamazoo, Chicago. At Cleveland it also has a taxi service. Stout Air Services also operate a Cleveland-Detroit passenger line. Clifford Ball has a mail line to Pittsburgh and a passenger line through to Washington. The through air mail from New York to Cleveland to Chicago is in the hands of National Air Transport...
...Goods. United Dry Goods Corp. was founded to unite a group of wholesale dry goods concerns, including Finch Van Slyke & McConville of St. Paul; Watts, Ritter of Huntington (W. Va.); Walton N. Moore of San Francisco; Arbuthnot, Stephenson of Pittsburgh; A. Krolik of Detroit. Assets in this merger total $25,000,000. Its purpose: to combat chain stores and others buying directly from the manufacturer by forming a chain of middlemen. Possible future additions to the merger: Ely & Walker of St. Louis; Carson, Pirie, Scott of Chicago; Hibben, Hollweg of Indianapolis; Perkins of Dallas...
...American Art Annual Sculptor Dreyfuss is listed as a sculptor and writer, pupil of George Grey Barnard, member of the Art Students' League of New York, sometime Instructor in Modeling at Cooper Union, Manhattan. Among his works is the Arsenal Park Memorial in Pittsburgh. His wealthy family say he is insane. They want him locked...
Died. Milton Bennett Medary, 55, of Philadelphia, architect (Valley Forge Chapel, "Singing Tower" at Mountain Lake, Fla., Philadelphia's Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Building, Penn Athletic Club Building, workingmen's villages at Neville Island, Pittsburgh, Bethlehem; consultant architect, Cornell University, Mount Vernon, Roosevelt Memorial Association); in Philadelphia...
There were also some petty jealousies. One John Boyd of Philadelphia sighed, accused two-time champion Carl G. Kaufmann, poker-faced Pittsburgh clerk, of getting all the "breaks." "I'm not a whale of a golfer myself," said Linkster Boyd, "but if I ever get a crack at Kaufmann I'll prove they grow better golfers on Pittsburgh's links." His "crack" came in the semifinals. Champion Kaufmann won, 3 & 2. In the 36-hole final round Champion-Kaufmann kept his championship, beat solemn Milton Concrant, Toledo mailman...