Word: monongahela
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...settled down on the grimy industrial towns of Pennsylvania's Monongahela Valley one day last week, blurred the bleak outlines of steel mills and foundries, and softened the glare of great furnaces. At sooty Donora (pop. 13,500), it was particularly heavy; the hills stand close and no breath of breeze had reached its streets. The haze thickened as locomotives and the high stacks of U.S. Steel's huge Donora Zinc Works sent fumes into the still air. But nobody paid much attention to the smoke-laden mist. The zinc plant had been operating for more than...
Pittsburgh had a coal crisis. Nearby mines had plenty of coal piled above ground, but barges could not carry it down the ice-clogged Monongahela River. Pittsburghers scurried furiously from dealer to dealer, hauled home their meager findings in buckets and family autos...
...Colorado. 4. Monongahela...
Rivermen have a saying that Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle harbor-where the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers meet to form the Ohio-is "great for towboats but hell on showboats." It was hell last week on one of the biggest, whitest and trimmest of U.S. inland excursion steamers, the Island Queen...
...boardwalk. Larry was used to getting up early: his dad is a brakeman on the Norfolk & Western. He didn't know his rivals' names, and he didn't bother to find out: he addressed them by the cities pinned on their sweaters, Chicago, Monongahela, Steubenville. Larry was one of the smallest of the lot, but unlike the older competitors he did not worry about losing; he just thought about how to win. Said he: "I ain't afraid of Pittsburgh . . . he leaves too many edgers. And Cleveland has a wart on his thumb, or sumphin...