Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thawed out by a game warden, they were soon sent on their way. Also last week, the misadventure which overtook two of Nature's best flying mechanisms overtook one of Man's best flying mechanisms 200 miles as the gull flies southwest of Hornell. Just outside of Pittsburgh, a twin-motored Douglas DC2 crippled by ice flopped helplessly to earth killing 13 people in 1937's third major air disaster...
Yaleman Garland went to Pittsburgh's Shady Side Academy, but his financial progress ran roughly parallel to valuation placed on his patent, which he acquired for $500 in stock. By easy stages this pat ent was written up to $7,500, then to $1,000,000, again to $3,250,000 and finally to a good round $32,500,000. At that point Yaleman Garland left Automatic Signal to Professor Fisher, taking off for a land of pure corporate romance. This he populated with no less than 30 companies, the functions of which were even vaguer than their assets...
...Service. American Airlines has applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission to establish flights from Detroit to Cincinnati and from Detroit to Indianapolis. Pennsylvania-Central has asked permission to inaugurate service between Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Transcontinental & Western Air wants to buy Braniff to get a north-south service to cross its transcontinental route, and Eastern Air covets Braniff's line between Houston and Brownsville, Tex., in order to tie up with Pan American's route in Mexico. Last week the chances of fulfilling most of these ambitions without overhauling the Air Mail Act of 1934 were reduced to zero...
...coalminers' sons sat at a walnut-stained steel desk in a Pittsburgh office last week, swaying the lives of at least a half-million other men, shaping the destiny of the whole U. S. One of them, dynamically champing a stogie, was Benjamin Franklin Fairless, a dark, stocky, kinetic corporation executive. The other, suavely puffing a cigaret, was Philip Murray, a lean, grey, scholarly labor leader. When their first talk was over the Labor Leader cried, and no impartial observer disputed him: "This is unquestionably the greatest story in the history of the American Labor movement...
Midwest. Besides the Big Ten, the Midwest has a major basketball league in the Big Six-Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma- with Notre Dame, whose victory over Pittsburgh was its eighth in a row, as a powerful independent. Last week, Kansas, which has won the Conference title five years out of eight and only once finished worse than second, strengthened its position as Conference leader with a smashing victory over Oklahoma...