Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some three miles from downtown Pittsburgh, on the Monongahela side of the city which is darkened on days of east wind by smoke from the steel mills in the valley, the pseudo-Renaissance building of the Carnegie Institute stands, blackened by 40 years. There last week critics of art, newspapermen and Pittsburgh's gentlest people assembled one evening to attend a brief ceremony in memory of Andrew Carnegie, then to crowd murmuring up the Institute's broad marble stairs into 17 galleries hung with 407 paintings by artists of 13 nations. The occasion was the opening...
Juiciest bait in President Gates's appeal for funds for a bigger and better University of Pennsylvania is a plan to build a small experimental college and athletic fields in Valley Forge, 22 miles from the noisy city campus on Walnut Street. To start with 50 freshmen, the tiny college I will instruct selected students by the tutorial method mainly in American history, government and English for a fee of about $1,250 a year. Other drive aims: strengthening the faculty, more money for research, more scholarships, new chemistry and library buildings, extension of the museum...
...there any such state of terrorism in, and about Narragansett Park resembling that which was present in the mining districts of Colorado and Pennsylvania, any such disorganization of life as overwhelmed the Ohio Valley last spring...
...Workmen inched the completed 230-ton tank out of the Kellogg shop and onto two of the ten longest (55-ft.) flatcars in the world. Railroad curves, bridges and tunnels between Jersey City and Whiting did not permit freightage of Stanolind's tank. So the Lehigh Valley R.R. hauled it two miles to the west bank of the Hudson. All traffic on the railroad had to stop while this went...
Photography: Wine Cellar Assistant Otto Rixen. 41, whom New York landscapes remind of the Rhine Valley where he was born...