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...Mark off the central third of the wedge: the southwest corner of Pennsylvania, the northern spike of West Virginia, a narrow strip that lies beyond the Ohio River in Ohio. If you drive fast, your car will take you across that country in five hours. It is "The Pittsburgh Area." the richest bituminous deposit in the world, whence comes one-fifth (some 100,000,000 tons a year) of the nation's soft coal. Now take a red crayon and dot the Pittsburgh Area, for in many of its countless, wretched little mining communities during the past month...
...inconveniences of smoke and commerce were annoying to the medical school and Lakeside Hospital. The two institutions ought to move, decided Mr. Mather. to the east, like the rest of the city. He guided them to a $5,000,000 area adjoining Western Reserve University and Case School of Applied Science. First he built a Medical School with his own money. That was finished in 1924. Then he got help to build schools of Nursing, Pharmacy and Dentistry, the Medical Library, Babies & Children's Hospital, Maternity Hospital, Rainbow Hospital (for crippled children), and an Institute for Pathology...
...henchmen were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for conspiracy to violate the national Prohibition laws. The true bill did not mention the various Capone sidelines such as gambling, bordellos, whiskey peddling, specified only the "manufacture and transportation of beer for beverage purposes in the Chicago area on a large scale." Brought to light were 5.000 separate offenses, the unit of manufacture for each offense being one 1,500 gal. vat of beer, the unit of transportation one 30-bbl. truckload...
While protesting the iniquity of Canton, Nanking agreed nevertheless to let the Southerners collect customs revenues in their area without hindrance...
...only justification for the training curriculum is that men of intelligence will, we hope, be given an opportunity to reduce the zone of sentimentalism and emotionalism and enlarge the area of truth and vision in the understanding and treatment of criminality...