Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fitting, therefore, that when Duquesne Light planned its new development, the company should honor a former official, a famed son of Pittsburgh. Entirely fitting, too, was the invitation to Lawyer Reed's son to speak at the dedication. Smart son of a smart father, and smart namesake of a smart granduncle, David A. Reed, 47, has many a distinction. He is a close friend of Andrew W. Mellon. He is, at the moment, both senior and junior U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania, because Philadelphia's Vare has not yet been admitted to the U. S. Senate...
Every watcher knew that the great power plant will not be called conventionally, "Unit 27" or "Brunot's Island Plant." but will bear the name of James Hay Reed. Most watchers, city-conscious, remembered smart James Hay Reed as the Pittsburgh lawyer behind the formation of the U. S. Steel Corp. Young Reed had learned his law in two good schools. As a graduate of the Western University of Pennsylvania (now University of Pittsburgh), he had gone first to the office of his lawyer uncle, famed David Reed of Pittsburgh. Five years of study and he was ready...
...board of Carnegie Steel Co. And when Carnegie dickered with the late, great J. P. Morgan to sink Carnegie Steel into the new U. S. Steel, it was Lawyer Reed who drew the mortgages which secured the bonds. Active to his death, in May 1927, Lawyer Reed saw Pittsburgh steel, Pittsburgh public utilities, grow into mighty units of U. S. industry...
...miles northwest of "The Point," where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers meet to form the mighty Ohio, and where Fort Duquesne (1754), became the nub of Pittsburgh, Brunot's Island is now within the city limits. Pittsburgh's harbor, crowded with pleasure boats, barges, steamships, extends about 30 miles along its three rivers...
...spend $100,000,000 the next seven or eight years electrifying its 325 miles of line (1,300 miles of track) between Manhattan and Wilmington. At Wilmington connection will be made with the Philadelphia electric lines. Thence the lines will eventually run westward through Pennsylvania to the Pittsburgh district, which soon will be electrified as are Philadelphia and Manhattan...