Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Federal Courtroom, Pittsburgh, Feb. 20--The long-hidden personal wealth of Andrew W. Mellon was revealed today as more than $97,000,000 (M), not including the other millions which he holds in such huge corporations as the Aluminum Company of America and the Gulf Refining Company...
Last year Theodore L. Moritz was trained in the school of political circus master: he was secretary to Mayor McNair of Pittsburgh. Last autumn he got his diploma in clowning: Pittsburgh elected him to Congress. Last week connoisseurs, who expected much of his political antics, discovered to their surprise that the first bill introduced by Mr. Moritz contained the seeds of great good sense...
Furious Mrs. George W. J. Bissell, widow of Pittsburgh's Stoveman Bissell, whose California vacation was spoiled by news that her home, heirlooms and art collection had gone up in smoke, dispatched a letter to the Pittsburgh city council: "I have just been informed . . . that the fire department had come to the fire with insufficient hose to reach the plug, and that by the time they had sent about the city to collect ample hose it was too late. My family had paid taxes on that house for 50 years to procure fire protection, yet in the only fire...
Night flying, more & more popular on U. S. airlines, is a bore. The scenery is blackness, scattered lights, sometimes stars. Not bored, however, were nine passengers on a Washington-Pittsburgh plane of Central Airlines one night last week. Two seats had been removed to install a five-foot-square screen at the cabin's front end. Warner Brothers had provided a cinema projector, two technicians, a specially-made 16-mm. print of Devil Dogs of the Air. The tri-Wasp Ford, ordinarily noisy, had been sound-proofed with rock wool...
Before the end of the week, the Rifle Club is to conduct its half of postal matches with the University of Pittsburgh and Bowdoin, and on Monday with Columbia and Stevens Tech...