Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This situation," Dr. Millikan said at the Pittsburgh meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (TIME, Jan. 7), "is not improved by the existence of the daily newspaper, which ... is under a greater pressure to find for its pages something that is new rather than something that is true. I venture the prediction that our present age, because of its craze for the new regardless of the true, will be looked back upon by our children's children with . . . amazement and ridicule." Dr. Millikan added that when nine-tenths of the workers in a field agree...
...first woman transport pilot was Ruth Nichols, who two years ago flew passengers regularly between New York and Boston. Not until last week, however, did any woman fly the U. S. airmail. On its regular Washington-Detroit mail & passenger run Central Airlines put as co-pilot Helen Richey of Pittsburgh, co-holder (with the late Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis) of the world's refueling endurance flight record for women (9 days 21 hr. 42 min.). Spinster Richey, 25, carried seven passengers, a big load of mail & express, on her first transport flight...
...Stravinsky-Dushkin recitals are scheduled for Minneapolis, Chicago, Toledo, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Carmel, Los Angeles, Montreal, Washington
...every U. S. sport page. To insure maximum attention, annual statistics are not released until the football season closes. By scanning charts, baseball addicts last week were able to find out exactly how every player in the National League performed during the summer of 1934. Leading batter was Pittsburgh's Paul Waner: 146 games; 217 hits; .362 average. Leading pitcher was not famed Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals, who had equaled a 17-year-old record by winning 30 games, but New York's Carl Hubbell, whose "earned run average" was 2.30 per game...