Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...normalcy and healthfulness of their appearance, were amused as they recognized the drawl of the south, the slur of the west. Ranging in age from 15 to 21, the boys had come from all classes, from farms, towns, cities. There was the son of the Czecho-Slovakian consul at Pittsburgh, the son of a bishop, a boy brought up in an orphanage. Rather stiffly they sat there in the hot sun, looking with awe at the judges who sat facing them solemnly, and who, by whispers, were soon identified as Thomas Alva Edison himself, Henry Ford, Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (Famed Pittsburgh family steel company, closel)' held by the Jones and Laughlin families. Founded in 1852. G. M. Laughlin Jr. is Board Chairman and W. L. Jones Jr. and B. F. Jones III are Executive Committee members. Capacity of 2,400,000 gross tons pig iron and 3,000,000 gross tons ingots. Earned $16 a share for the half.) Net income, first half...
Swetonic pitcher Pittsburgh...
Sheeley infielder Pittsburgh...
President Herbert P. Howell, onetime Carnegie Steel Co. executive, went from Pittsburgh to Manhattan in 1912 to become vice president of National Bank of Commerce. Here he had ample opportunity to study the workings of a Big Bank of the merging type.* Recognizing the power & potency of the Big Bank, Mr. Howell realized also that its very bigness left room for a smaller bank operating on more of a personal contact basis. So, after long consideration, and with the assistance of the tycoons mentioned above, he got together $7,000,000 for a surplus and sold $7,000,000 capital...