Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pittsburgh last week the world's first aluminum street car, half as heavy as steel, permitting high speed with comfort, made its first run, revived lagging public interest in trolley transportation...
During his spare time, of which he generally has little, Dr. Poling writes novels which he signs "Dan Poling." One of these (The Heretic) he wrote on a Westbound transcontinental train. He has laid his novels on New York harbor barges, in Pittsburgh steel mills. He knows about New York because in the winter he functions there as pastor of the Marble Collegiate Reformed Church. About Pittsburgh he learned while collaborating with Bishop Francis John McConnell on the Steel Report Committee of the Interchurch World Movement in 1912, a committee which shares the credit for getting the steel laborers...
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Robert Law, George M. Pynchon Jr. and Elliot S. Phillips have worked up the Westchester Club. Charles Townsend Ludington is busy at Philadelphia; Major Lorillard Spencer, Count Alfonso Villa and William H. Vanderbilt at Newport; George Hann at Pittsburgh; David S. Ingalls at Cleveland; Robert R. McCormick, Joseph Medill Patterson, Philip Wrigley, John J. Mitchell at Chicago; William G. McAdoo Jr., Tod Ford Jr., Aldrich M. Peck at Los Angeles; William G. Parrott, Peter B. Kyne, Julliard McDonald, Thomas B. Eastland, Alexander Young, Edward H. Clark at San Francisco...
...rail status quo, and again the movement was pro-Pennsylvania and anti-Baltimore & Ohio. The Wabash Railway proposed a plan which aimed at creating a 7,044-mile system with the 2,400-mile Wabash as a nucleus. Major links in the proposed Wabash chain were the Pittsburgh & West Virginia, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Western Maryland, Lehigh Valley. The Wabash plan clashes with the Baltimore & Ohio plan (TIME, March 4) at almost every conceivable point. In the first place, the Wabash itself was the most vital unit in the proposed greater and longer B. & O. From a B. & O. standpoint...