Word: pittsburgh
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Filed in Pittsburgh last week was an inventory of the estate of Andrew Mellon. In 1931 "the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Hamilton" had an admitted $205,000,000. But he gave $68,000,000 to his children as a 1931 Christmas gift, $35,000,000 to charity, his $50,000,000 art collection to the U. S., vast other sums to favorite Mellon projects like the University of Pittsburgh. At his death only $37,000,000 remained, all of which (except for $180,000 to domestic servants) he willed to his charity outlet, the A. W. Mellon Educational...
...story was confirmed by records of the Italian Government itself. The Government boasts that today 80,000 children in foreign countries are enrolled in the Balilla. Last year it recruited 18,500 foreign children, of whom some 5,000 were from the U. S. (mainly New York City, Detroit, Pittsburgh and San Francisco), for the summer trip to Italy. Of its $6,500,000 annual budget for propaganda abroad, Italy spends nearly half to support, wholly or partly, some 800 schools, most of which are in the U. S., France and South America. In the U. S., these schools...
...Post Office Department, during the regime of Franklin Roosevelt often at odds with U. S. airlines, last week sent them an amiable invitation: to submit bids for mail contracts on two experimental hauls, a 465-mile route between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and a 413-mile loop from Pittsburgh through Clarksburg and Huntington, W. Va. and back to Clarksburg. Catch: without landing, the mailplanes must pick up and deliver air mail at towns scattered from ten to 30 miles apart on each route...
...ballparks is the box-office problem of the peeping urchin at the knothole. When radio stretches the knothole to fit its public's enormous ear, the problem swells to lawsuit size. Pittsburgh Athletic Co. has banned any broadcasting from the Pittsburgh Pirates' home grounds (similar bans are in force at the Yankee Stadium, Polo Grounds, Ebbets Field). But at the beginning of the baseball season Pittsburgh Athletic Co. sold to General Mills, Inc., Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc., for broadcasting over Stations WWSW and NBC's KDKA (Pittsburgh), exclusive rights for games played by the Pirates away...
Much to the annoyance of all parties to this agreement, a third Pittsburgh station, bustling KQV, impudently proceeded to pirate not only the broadcasts of the Pirates' out-of-town games, but of home games as well. The Pirates' owners joined NBC and its two sponsors in an appeal to the courts...