Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barcelona is the proletarian Pittsburgh of Spain, but violently Catholic Bilbao, capital of the Basques, is a sweating, sulphurous Spanish Youngstown, its skies red every night with the belch of blast furnaces. Up to last week the bouncing, battling Basques had been almost left to their own quarrels by the Rightist Spain of Generalissimo Francisco Franco this year, but suddenly he sent General Emilio Mola with a mixed force of Spaniards, Germans, Italians and Moors swarming north over the Cantabrian Mountains to get Bilbao or bust...
Fifty miles outside of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania's Ligonier Valley, are Rolling Rock Farm and Rolling Rock Country Club. Rolling Rock was originally 12,000 acres of land owned by Judge Thomas Mellon, who left it to his son Richard Beatty Mellon, brother of Andrew Mellon and onetime president of the $340,000,000 Mellon National Bank. Richard Beatty Mellon turned Rolling Rock into a loosely organized country club, whose members share the expenses of keeping up one of the best U. S. packs of English fox hounds, raising pheasants, and running the Gold Cup Steeplechase. He left...
...wing design. When it landed again after buzzing back & forth over the Tehachapi Mountains for several hours, Douglas officials revealed that they had devised a satisfactory way to prevent the unique icing of ailerons which caused the crash of a Transcontinental & Western Air Douglas DC2 fortnight ago near Pittsburgh (TIME, April 5). Chief Engineer Arthur E. Raymond merely added a few inches to the underside of the wing in front of the slot where the ailerons hinge on. This reduces the flow of air through the slot, thus reduces the ability of ice to form at this crucial point. Simultaneously...
...plane was a Transcontinental & Western airliner which had taken off from Camden, N. J. in perfect mechanical condition with ten passengers, two pilots and a hostess, bound for Pittsburgh's Allegheny Airport. At the wheel was 32-year-old Captain Frederick Lawrence Bohnet, a TWA veteran. The sky was overcast but the weather relatively smooth. Flying above the clouds Capt. Bohnet brought his big ship to Pittsburgh without trouble. At 6:33 p. m. he crossed the airport "cone of silence" at 5,000 ft. out of sight of ground. He was ordered to circle once while another plane...