Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Groceries. Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., ever expanding from its Cincinnati base, last week acquired the 115 Pittsburgh stores of the Eagle Grocery Stores Co., whose sales the first half of this year had been $1,873,750, all last year $3,194,604. Kroger now has more than 4,300 stores...
...success of that book that he said to his friends: "Find me a 'lady Lindbergh.' " Amelia Earhart was found. She became the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an airplane. Last week, she took Mr. Putnam for an air ride from New York to Pittsburgh. Landing at Rodger's Field, her plane struck an unmarked ditch, turned over, was wrecked. Pilot Earhart and Passenger Putnam suffered no injuries. Said Passenger Putnam: "The accident occurred through no fault of hers...
...modernization, I mean increasing depths to a point where we can handle 10,000 tons in a line of barges pulled by a tug. This Administration has authorized the systematic undertaking of this modernization. Within a few years we will have completed the deepening of the Ohio up to Pittsburgh, the Missouri up to Kansas City, Omaha and beyond, the Mississippi to St. Paul and Minneapolis, the Illinois to Chicago...
Richard R. Quay, Pittsburgh Republican, son-of-a-Senator (see "In Pennsylvania...
Seven U. S. radio stations last week were broadcasting pictures. Two were operating regularly, four irregularly. The last were testing out their frequencies. The stations: WGY, Schenectady, N. Y. (General Electric); KDKA, East Pittsburgh, Pa. (Westinghouse); WRNY, New York (Experimenter Publishing Co.); 3XK, Washington (Jenkins Laboratories); 2XAL, New York (Experimenter Publishing Co.) ; 1XAY, Lexington, Mass. (Donald R. Lafflin); 4XA, Memphis, Tenn. (Wrec., Inc.); 9XAA, Chicago (Chicago Federation of Labor...