Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FREDERICK L. BEELBY JR. Pittsburgh...
...industrial Barcelona, the proletarian "Pittsburgh of Spain" and the country's only modern metropolis, last week took for its Region of Catalonia the autonomous rank of a semi-collectivist State by proclamation, acclaim and much frenzied carousing and shooting in the streets. The great city's exultant Communists. Anarchists and Socialists still were friendly to Spain's Madrid regime in theory but in practice they had carried Catalonia off by herself on the political loose. Zealots plastered up everywhere manifestoes reading PRIVATE PROPERTY IS CONFISCATED AND COLLECTIVIZED! This meant that doors of wealthy and middle class homes...
r/jg me of the radio industry in the United States has been the most remarkable achievement . . . starting from a single broadcasting station in 1920-the pioneer station KDKA in Pittsburgh...
...earliest and most successful . . .stations was KDKA at East Pittsburgh, Pa., owned by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company...
...honor of being second . . . fell to KDKA of Pittsburgh . . . and, though it has erroneously claimed and been credited with priority among broadcasters, it is still entitled to a place of distinction. . . ." On Aug. 31, 1920, the Detroit station announced returns of the primary elections in Michigan. On Nov. 2, 1920, the Pittsburgh station broadcast returns of the Presidential election. Westinghouse then continued with semiweekly broadcasts, until Dec. i, 1920 when daily programs commenced. Neither of the rivals can claim priority except as a commercial station. Lee de Forest broadcast the voice of Enrico Caruso from the top of the Metropolitan...