Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American art-the Iowa landscapes of Grant Wood, serene and sunny; the turbulent Missourians of Thomas Benton (see cut, p. 31), calling up the hard-eyed, banjo-playing, riverboat life of the Central South; the innocent art of John Kane, who put the steel mills and freight trains of Pittsburgh on canvas for the first time and who took machinery in his stride. "Look at those trains!" he said, as he painted Turtle Creek Valley with the green hills and the red brick houses in the background, beyond the smoky railroad yards. "Look at those trains, gaily defying...
...steel industry, with its 410 steel mills centred around Pittsburgh, Chicago and Birmingham so vast that the four largest can produce more steel than all Germany. The automobile industry which in a year produces 2,500,000 motor cars and could produce about 6,000,000, which directly or indirectly employs 6,380,000 workmen, which in a year uses 176,000 tons of iron, 329,900 tons of rubber; 63,000,000 square feet of plate glass; 21,156,000 feet of leather upholstery; 191,700 tons of lead; 12,600,000 pounds of nickel; 619,434 bales...
...Pittsburgh short, suave, russet-haired Gerald L. (for Leslie) Brockhurst served on the jury for the 1939 Carnegie Inter national Exhibition. And in Manhattan two exhibitions of his work were opened which showed him equally proficient with brush, crayon, etcher's needle. At the Knoedler Galleries was a loan exhibition of his portraits and drawings. The Arthur Harlow Galleries showed the first complete exhibition of his etchings. With his projected English commissions canceled or postponed "for the duration," Artist Brockhurst, whose deafness kept him out of World War I, planned to paint portraits...
...could volatilize. This World War, by pushing Germany and England out of the world coal market, was bringing U. S. coal companies some pretty fair export business. In addition, if anybody stood to profit momentarily from industrial forward buying, they did: they couldn't fill their orders. Pittsburgh Coal was traded at $8½ (up almost 300% from $2¼), Consolidation Coal at $6¾ (up over 500% from...
...eyed Jewish Comedian Eddie Cantor made a personal appearance at Pittsburgh's First Baptist Church, preached on Christianity and Democracy. Excerpt: "Christianity and Democracy go hand in hand. Go to church and practice true Christianity, because edifices like the one we are in tonight will live long after Hitler and Stalin are forgotten. Some one should tell those two birds that you can't put God in a concentration camp. To my humble way of thinking, there are too many Gentiles in the world and not enough Christians...