Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office, Manhattan. He had a stepson, Wilmarth, who committed suicide in 1936. He and the first Mrs. Ickes also had two foster-children: a girl who is now Mrs. ReQua Bryant of Evanston, Ill., and Robert H. Ickes, 25, onetime WPA clerk, now employed by Duquesne Light Co. in Pittsburgh, who last week eloped with Marcelle Charlotte Levine, 19, to Lisbon, Ohio, where they were married...
Fritz Reiner, world-famous conductor of the Pittsburgh symphony, stated a short time ago that he was offering the post of solo trumpet to Manny Klein, now playing with Frank Trumbauer's orchestra, because he felt Klein's vibrato "much preferable to the stiff and dead tone used, as a rule by symphony...
Chicago 4, New York 2; Pittsburgh 3, Boston 2; St. Louis 1, Brooklyn 0; Cincinnati 7, Philadelphia...
Sharing Big Steel's worries, in a more modest way, is the industry's No. 4 unit-Jones & Laughlin, also frozen up in Pittsburgh, also led in the Detroit flat-steel market by National Steel and others. Owing preferred stockholders $36.75 a share of back dividends, J. & L. is certainly no happier than Big Steel...
...world's first semicontinuous strip mill for American Rolling Mill in 1926, claims to have produced more of this revolutionary steelmaking machinery than all its competitors combined. President Ladd, a curt, crisp oldster who likes deep-sea fishing and gardening at his estate in Coraopolis Heights outside Pittsburgh, got his job in 1928, immediately began centralizing United's plants and invading foreign markets. He consolidated seven U. S. plants into four, set up affiliates in Canada, England, France, sold complete mills to Russia, Japan, England...