Word: mauch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lehigh Valley they climb, where trees remain. Up where Moravian missionaries once established their settlements among the Iroquois, there is smoky Bethlehem (Bethlehem Steel Corp.) and Allentown. Beyond them cement mills sit greyly beside the Lehigh railroad tracks. Local stations are one, two, three and four miles apart. From Mauch Chunk (pronounced Mok Tchunk) a network of branches spread westward from the main line up among the anthracite coal mines, whose hard, black products give the Lehigh Valley Railroad its soubriquet of "Black Diamond." At Mauch Chunk the main line gradient becomes so steep that a "helper" engine must help...
...thousand citizens of Mauch Chunk, Pa., engaged special trains to come to New York to see the Hippodrome production of Better Times...