Word: clairton
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...with its flat, grimy coal barges, the railroad tracks with their chuffing, endless trainloads of coal and iron-on up through the tough steel towns went Wendell Willkie. The workers listened. There were boos; but everywhere they listened: at Hays, at Homestead (scene of the 1892 massacre), at Duquesne, Clairton, Wilmerding. Solid walls of factories blossomed with masses of dirty-faced workers, like tenement flowerpots, who cheered and waved, laughing, sometimes jeering. Children, white, black, yellow, many times screamed derision; but Willkie's evangelical earnestness won their parents' respectful attention. Even in polyglot Homestead, where the police motorcycles...