Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blond, muscular, young Surrealist Peter Blume upset many a critic two years ago when he won first prize in Pittsburgh's Carnegie International Exhibition with a slickly painted abstraction of twisted topography and soaring sailors called South of Scranton (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934). One of the eight art Fellowships went last week to Surrealist Blume to continue daubing at a small anti-Fascist canvas he began on Guggenheim funds...
...integrated coal-coke-gas company, Eastern Gas & Fuel makes its headquarters in Boston but control lies in Pittsburgh. It is one of the two big subsidiaries of Koppers Co., a province in the Mellon empire. Other big Koppers subsidiary is Koppers Gas & Coke, whose activities include such diverse jobs as supplying gas to Montreal and creosoting ties for U. S. railroads. Both Eastern Gas and Koppers Gas grew out of a patented coke oven invented by a German named Heinrich Koppers, who improved the method of saving the gas and other coal derivatives formerly blown away in thick smoke...
...Koppers business because it cut off the German supply of such explosive coal derivatives as ammonia, benzol, toluol. For three years Koppers' Rust built a coke plant every 60 days, a benzol-toluol plant every six weeks. Since these plants needed structural steel, Mr. Rust drew in the Pittsburgh steel team of Charles Donnell Marshall and Howard Hale McClintic. Today the parent Koppers Co. controls at least $400,000,000 worth of properties, has only 16 stockholders. The Mellons own a clear 50% of Koppers' stock, Mr. Marshall 16%, Mr. McClintic 9%, the Rust family about...
Though telephones held out, power failure soon drove all three Pittsburgh papers out of town. To the Washington, Pa. Observer & Reporter scurried the Scripps-Howard Press, ran off 125,000 copies of an eight-page flood extra. Paul Block's Post-Gazette borrowed the office of the Newcastle News, got out enough papers for 70,000 of its 204,139 readers, then slogged on to the larger plant of the Youngstown, Ohio Vindicator. The Sun-Telegraph hurried a crew 30 miles to publish on the presses of the Greensburg Tribune & Review...
Oldest U. S. broadcasting station was off the air for an hour when failure of power silenced Pittsburgh's KDKA. Other broadcasters took what the flood brought them with varying degrees of enterprise. National Broadcasting Company sent out engineers and announcers to look at acres of dun-colored water, broadcast what they saw. Columbia Broadcasting System relayed the flood descriptions of local stations...