Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...September, the Manhattan demolition firm of Lipsett, Inc. sent Big Jim to Pittsburgh to help clear away the wreckage of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway's old Wabash Station, which had been swept by an $8,000,000 fire in 1946. With his 40-ton crane and his wrecking ball, Big Jim was the delight of Pittsburgh's sidewalk superintendents. Every day, hundreds of people gathered to watch him work. The Pittsburgh Press ran a Sunday feature story about Big Jim. The story said that he was "the best free show in town...
...powerhouse B.U. Freshmen culled from high school star lists as far away as Pittsburgh, have two tackles weighing over 220. The Pittsburghers, backs Bob Boucher and Bill Pavalowski, team up with Charlie Kent of Arlington to present a powerful challenge to the Lamarmen defense...
...Heard from Mrs. Truman about daughter Margaret's concert appearance in Pittsburgh (see cut), the first in a nationwide tour of 30 cities. The audience of 4,000, which included Mrs. Truman and Secretary of the Treasury Snyder and his wife, applauded enthusiastically, called Margaret back nine times and heard three encores. But the critics, as before, were cool...
...sentenced to 14 years' slavery in North America. The highest bid comes from Captain Cooper of the Virginia militia. A scoundrel, Howard DaSilva, tricks Cooper out of his new property. The picture thereupon settles down in and near Fort Pitt, which every schoolboy will presumably recognize as early Pittsburgh...
...Pittsburgh 38, New York...