Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seeking is the $100,000,000 iron & steel business. Pittsburgh's schools are available enough for them...
...late Bronx insurance examiner; in Kunkletown, Pa. In 1897 Mr. Kresge married Anna E. Harvey of Memphis; she divorced him in 1924, obtained a $10,000,000 settlement for herself, $5,000,000 for each of their five children. In 1924 Mr. Kresge married Mabel D. Mercer of Pittsburgh, daughter of Capt. George A. Mercer, onetime partner of Andrew Carnegie. Last February she divorced him, obtained a settlement of about $10,000,000. Mr. Kresge's fortune has been estimated...
...large section of the Fifth Estate, that world company of scientists, climbed the Allegheny Mountains to Pittsburgh last week. They knew soft coal, what it was and what could profitably be done with it and were answering the call to the Second International Conference on Bituminous Coal made by President Thomas Stockham. Baker of Carnegie Institute of Technology...
Artificial Coal. Dr. Friedrich Bergius of Germany heated soft coal, hydrogen and a catalyst under heavy pressure. The coal changed into gasolines, aromatics and other volatile hydrocarbons. This Berginization process the German Dye Trust is using under direction of Dr. Carl Krauch, able chemist, who was at Pittsburgh last week. With him was Dr. Bergius himself to report his further wizardry with hydrocarbons. By heating cellulose and: water or lignin and water, lie produced coal. "End coal" he ; calls it, and, like natural coal he could transmute it into gasoline and other fractional products...
Fuel Gas. Learning from visiting Germans that fuel gas made by the Ruhr coke ovens is being pumped to homes 450 mi. away and will eventually be piped all over Germany, their U. S. colleagues at Pittsburgh last week seriously considered doing likewise in the U. S. Making such gas at the coal mines and distributing it by long pipes should be cheaper than shipping coal to homes and factories. Also, the convenience of such gas will enable small communities to have factories, will prevent the present rural drift to cities...