Most reliable index of general business conditions in Pittsburgh is how dirty people's faces are. By last week with steel production touching a new Recovery high (75% of capacity) Pittsburghers were good & grimy. Boomtime crowds swarmed the narrow streets of the Golden Triangle, Pittsburgh's famed business and shopping district at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers.
More men were at work in the endless miles of steel mills than in magic 1929. In smoky Homestead the Relief Office closed down last month for lack of patronage. More automobiles were sold...
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