Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus with great fanfare was launched a new flexible safety glass, billed as the best ever. Five companies cooperated in the research which produced it-Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp., E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Monsanto Chemical, Libbey-Owens-Ford, Pittsburgh Plate Glass. Announced cost: $6,000.000. Federal Housing Administrator Stewart McDonald, an old motormaker (Moons) but a notably inexpert motorist, made a speech. A congratulatory telegram arrived from Franklin Roosevelt...
Last week the Air Hygiene Foundation, a branch of the Mellon Institute at Pittsburgh, issued a press release on silicosis, a disease of the lungs which is acquired by continual inhalation of fresh stone dust...
...cheap process for making all kinds and grades of beef more tender was announced last week by Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. The process, sponsored and financed by Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., involves "hanging" the meat so that its enzymes may weaken and break-down the fibres and connective tissues that make meat tough. Ordinarily such hanging (to obtain a few very choice steaks) requires four to eight weeks under expensive cold-storage conditions. In the Mellon-Kroger process it is done in a few days at a temperature of 60°, a relative humidity...
...unknown named William Doriani. Last week, amid sophisticated hosannas on 57th Street, the works of Tenor Doriani painted in fresh color patterns with flattened childish figures, were exhibited at the Marie Harriman Gallery as pure naïve paintings in a class with those of the late Pittsburgh House Painter John Kane...
...PITTSBURGH-Trustees of the University of Pittsburg tonight gave Charles W. (Chisel) Bowser a 3-year contract as head coach of the University's football team and at the same time appointed a committee to investigate Pitt's "athletic situation...