Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...levees, spilling over the top and then surging and thundering into the river towns, killing 58 people, routing 550,000 from their homes, destroying millions of dollars worth of property in an area of 20,000 sq. mi. With the water 8 ft. above flood stage at Pittsburgh, 10 at Wheeling, 21 at Cincinnati at week's end (see map), the still-rising 1937 flood had already taken more lives than the 1936 inundation of the upper Ohio and Susquehanna slopes. For size and damage it was a far greater national disaster. In the lower Ohio Valley there never...
...Making peace as well as making war was part of John L. Lewis' strategy. In Detroit a 24-day strike of Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp., makers of parts for Ford and others, was settled with an agreement to boost minimum wages from 50^ to 65^ an hour. In Pittsburgh the gS-day strike of Pittsburgh Plate Glass workers was settled with an agreement to boost wages 8/ an hour, establish a minimum wage of 63^ an hour. Libbey-Owens-Ford glass workers on strike for five weeks again failed to make a settlement, but it seemed that glass-labor...
Beveridge Webster was born in Pittsburgh where his father was director of the Pittsburgh Conservatory of Music and taught music analysis for many years. When Beveridge reached five, his father began to teach him piano. At eight, young Beveridge astonished a private audience from the Conservatory by playing, with his mother, a Beethoven sonata for four hands...
...tour. Since then he has studied under Schnabel in Berlin, played triumphantly through France, England, Holland. Germany, Italy, Russia. Manhattanites first heard him two years ago when he made his debut with the Philharmonic under Werner Janssen. He has played also with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Richmond symphonies. Last month he played in the White House after the Cabinet dinner...
Married- Sam Parks Jr., 27, 1935 National Open golf champion; and Jean Davison, of Pittsburgh; in Pittsburgh...