Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July, two years ago, when the unionized employes of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. went on strike. It was April, this year, when other miners in western Pennsylvania went on strike. It was bitter November last week, when some 400 officials of the American Federation of Labor and subsidiaries met in Pittsburgh to hear of the hardships and grievances of the Pennsylvania miners and their striking comrades in West Virginia and Ohio who, with dependents, brought the total number of sufferers...
...conference held in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1924. That conference was under the auspices of Secretaries Davis of Labor and Hoover of Commerce. Thus the gravest charge made at last week's conference was when Vice President Philip Murray of the United Mine Workers said that the Pittsburgh Coal Co. had "deliberately slapped the Government of the United States in the face in violating the Jacksonville agreement...
There is a National League; ten teams divided into the International Division (Montreal Canadiens, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, New York Americans) and the American Division (New York Rangers, Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Boston). In March the first three teams in the International play for the O'Brien Cup; the first three in the American for the Prince of Wales Cup; respectively emblematic of the division championships. Then division champions play for the Stanley Cup and the World's Championship...
Three men were seriously hurt on Manhattan teams the opening night. The Rangers won from Toronto, the New York Americans lost heavily to the Canadiens, Detroit overwhelmed Pittsburgh, Chicago and Boston tied desperately, Montreal beat the world's champions from Ottawa...
Illuminating gas engineers were amazed last week. They could not account for the explosion in Pittsburgh of a gas storage tank said to be the largest in the world. Supposedly, it was empty; workmen were repairing its top. Suddenly, unaccountably, the tank, capable of holding 5,000,000 cu. ft. of gas, blew up. It caused two lesser (and full) gas tanks to explode; it blew buildings apart; it killed some two dozen people, injured several hundred...