Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this man who will never perish from the thoughts of the American people when we are gone and forgotten, this man sits on that side of the table as Secretary of the Treasury and if reports are correct that he owns the Aluminum Co., Mr. Mellon, the citizen of Pittsburgh, Pa., sits on this side and determines how much he owes the government...
Just before going on his holiday he had added to his "Hale's Tours" feature a moving picture he had seen in Pittsburgh, The Great Train Robbery, by Edwin S. Porter. "Hale's Tours" was only a travelog ?kinetic scenes of Mont Blanc projected on a screen in a gallery which rocked and swayed to simulate the movement of an observation car?but The Great Train Robbery was a real story that ran for twelve minutes. You saw the bandits riding on their raid, the station agent working in his office. "Hale's Tours" was in debt and Zukor...
...Hocking Valley and offering a plan (contested in the event) for unifying them. Leonor Fresnel Loree entered it by control of the Delaware & Hudson and the Wabash, by buying near control of the Lehigh Valley and by getting an option (lapsed in the event) on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh...
...Taplin brothers of Cleveland want the Wheeling, as they do the Western Maryland, to hook up with their short Pittsburgh & West Virginia and form a private Lakes-to-Ocean coal road. So they demanded that the I. C. C. forbid the B. & O., N. Y. Central and Van Sweringens to own the Wheeling. The I. C. C. last week continued to cogitate...
Heretofore the largest mastodon tusk was in the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, a specimen measuring nine feet. The Harvard specimen is over two feet longer than the Carnegie specimen, and scientists have estimated that, during the 50,000 years it lay in the earth, corrosion has reduced its size at least two feet, making its former length well over 13 feet...