Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...routine business," another man might call extraordinary exertion. Long, closely-written technical papers were read on city planning, surveys, irrigation, highways, topography, etc. Among the notables present were Engineers Morris Knowles of Pittsburgh (city planner), President Arthur E. Morgan of Antioch College (flood control specialist), President George S. Davison of "that good" Gulf Refining Co., Pittsburgh; Willard T. Chevalier, manager of the Engineering News-Record (the profession's "Bible"). For President Stevens, aged 74, the trip to Denver had personal aspects. He was paying a visit to his brother E. C. Stevens, headmaster of a Denver school. Also...
Between Aug 1?15: Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Dayton, Cincinnati, Louisville, Indianapolis, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Chicago, St. Louis...
...monoplane of his own design. Of the merit points awarded for keeping to schedule, not having accidents, fuel economy, etc.-he had 2,000 more than any other contestant. The ships had traveled 4,200 miles, from Detroit to New England, down the coast to Baltimore, cross country via Pittsburgh and Cleveland into Michigan again, back south to Dayton, Louisville, Dallas, Tulsa and thence up the continent to Detroit. Henry Ford, watching the pilots jockey their controls to keep even keels in the rain and gale at the finish, said: "This shows the reliability of the airplane, if anything does...
...Allentown, Pa., two women prepared to leave a railroad train as it pulled into the station. One Stefan Baletic, fisherman of Buras, La., who had ridden in the same car with the women from Pittsburgh, sprang from his seat...
...from the windows of Avery Mission Methodist Episcopal church in the north side of Pittsburgh last week clattered sounds of shouting, crying, handclapping. A joint commission of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church had recommended that the two churches fuse their organizations and their properties and call the combination the United Methodist Episcopal Church. They would be united "under a name that will be universal in meaning and not confine us to any race or country." Members of both denominations were glad. Efforts of 30 years were coming to fruition...