Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motorcar maker, announced that he would give $25,000 for the best plan submitted on Prohibition enforcement, no fewer than 23,230 competitors rushed forward with suggestions. Came a plan from a general in the Brazilian army. Came plans from African, Asiatic, Oceanic missionaries; from Connecticut tobacco-chewers, from Pittsburgh gin-millers. Came plans from "sorrowing mother," "drunkard's widow," "rum runner's deserted wife." Came also a plan from Major Chester Paddock Mills, onetime (1926-27) Prohibition Administrator for the New York City district. Last week the awarding committee, headed by President-Emeritus William Oxley Thompson...
...group. _ Two upstate publishers thus became rivals in the huge, various New York City newspaper field. For only last August, another chain-paper man, Paul Block, bought the Brooklyn Standard-Union. Block began his newspaper career in Elmira, N. Y., and was publishing papers in Newark, Toledo, Duluth and Pittsburgh at the time he purchased the Standard-Union...
...American Locomotive Co. at Pittsburgh needed a works manager. The Great Western's superintendent of motive power, well-paid though he was, concluded that, without executive experience, a mechanical man can get just so far and no further in railroading. Moreover, building engines for sale interested him more than buying engines and keeping them running until they died of old age. He took the Pittsburgh job, at a big drop in salary. The salary did not stay down long...
Coal conference at Pittsburgh, which made businessmen realize more than ever pure science's money value...
Married. Thomas Hitchcock Jr., most famed of U.S. poloists; and Mrs. Margaret Mellon Laughlin, daughter of Banker William Larimer Mellon, of Pittsburgh; in Manhattan...