Browse Items (24 total)

'What Medicare covers', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1996; 1996-11-1; Corrupt practices; Hospitals; Medicare fraud; Medicine; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; Staffing, Funding and Institutions

'What goes up the chimney', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-1-1; Air; Air quality management; Donora; Heilbroner, Robert L.; Law and legislation; Other; Pennsylvania; Physiological effect; Pollution; Smoke; Smoke prevention; Temperature inversions; United States; Waste and Pollution

'War and the steel ghost towns', Harpers

Tags: 1939-1945; 1940; 1940-1-1; 1940s; Economic conditions; Engineering; manufacturing; New Castle; New Castle (Pa.); Pennsylvania; Production; Ruttenberg, Harold J.; Ruttenberg, Stanley H.; Steel industry and trade; World War II

'The shipyard', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1909; 1909-6-1; Employees; Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Oakley, Thornton; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; Shipbuilding industry; Shipyards

'The new meaning of public health', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1912; 1912-4-1; Bru�re, Robert W. (Robert Walter); Communicable diseases; Disease; Medicine; Pennsylvania; Prevention; Public health; Public health laws; Research; United States

'The Johnstown flood', Harpers

Tags: 1889; 1930s; 1933; 1933-9-1; Anecdotes; Earth Sciences; Flood; Flood damage; Geography; Himmelwright, Abraham Lincoln Artman; History; Johnstown; Johnstown (Pa.); Pennsylvania

'The great Centralia coal fire', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2004; 2004-2-1; Centralia; Centralia (Pa.); coal; Coal mines and mining; Energy Engineering; Engineering; Mine fires; Pennsylvania; Social aspects; Social conditions; Tietz, Jeff

'The builder who makes integration pay', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1965; 1965-7-1; African Americans; Balk, Alfred; civil engineering; Discrimination in housing; Engineering; Finance; Housing; Morris Milgram; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; Philadelphia (Pa.); Race relations; Real estate development

'Solving the problem of infant mortality', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-10-1; Children�s Bureau; Family life surveys; Hendrick, Burton Jesse; Infants; Johnstown; Julia Clifford Lathrop; Manchester; Maternal and infant welfare; Montclair; Mortality; New Hampshire; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Reproduction and Development; Social sciences; Statistics; United States

'Oil�A new industry', Harpers

Tags: 1950; 1950-10-1; 1950s; Cleveland; E.L. Drake; Energy Engineering; Engineering; Kouwenhoven, John Atlee; Ohio; Oil City; Oil well drilling; Pennsylvania; Petroleum industry and trade; Petroleum refineries; Titusville

'My countryside, then and now', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1999; 1999-8-1; Country life; Cowley, Malcolm; Malcolm Cowley; Pennsylvania; Rural conditions; Rural-urban migration; Social change; Social sciences; Sociology; United States

'Mental cases', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-7-1; Energy Engineering; Engineering; Law and legislation; Nuclear crisis control; Nuclear energy; Pennsylvania; Psychological aspects; Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (Pa.)

'Machine ghosts', Harpers

Tags: 1940; 1940-3-1; 1940s; Engineering; manufacturing; New Castle; Pennsylvania; Production; Steel industry and trade

'Hunting in earnest', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1988; 1988-2-1; Abbey, Edward; Biology; Cookery (Game); Deer hunting; Edward Abbey; Fathers and sons; Hunting customs; Pennsylvania; Small game hunting; Zoology

'How Frank Lloyd Wright got his medal', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1958; 1958-5-1; After-dinner speeches; American Institute of Architects (Philadelphia; Anecdotes; Architects; Architecture; Awards; Bendiner, Alfred; Dinners and dining; Engineering; Frank Lloyd Wright; Pa.); Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; United States

'God or gorilla', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-2-1; 21st century; Biology; Chapman, Matthew; Dover; Evolution; Intelligent design (Teleology); Law and legislation; Pennsylvania; Religion and science; Religion in the public schools; Study and teaching

'Forging America�s weapons of war', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-11-1; Bailey, Vernon Howe; Bethlehem; Bethlehem Steel Corporation (Bethlehem; Chemistry; Manufacture; Ordnance; Pa.); Pennsylvania; Pictorial works; Steel ingots

'Dreams gone to rust. The Monongahela Valley mourns for steel', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-9-1; Corn, David; Economic conditions; Engineering; Iron and steel workers; manufacturing; Monongahela River Valley; Monongahela River Valley (WVaand Pa.); Occupational retraining; Pennsylvania; Production; Steel industry and trade; Unemployment

'Clerestories', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-2-1; Earth Sciences; Fans (Machinery); Flags; Levy, Stacy; Meteorology and Climate Science; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; Pictorial works; Winds

'Bell Telephone�s experiment in education', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1955; 1955-3-1; Baltzell, E. Digby (Edward Digby); Bell Telephone System; Employees; Engineering; Executives; Graduate work; Humanities; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; Study and teaching (Continuing education); Telecommunications; Training of; University of Pennsylvania

'Aslan resurrected', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2004; 2004-4-1; 21st century; Animals; Biology; Endangered species; Environmental aspects; Kirk, Jay; Mythology; Panthers; Pennsylvania; Wilderness areas; Wildlife reintroduction; Zoology

'Antibacterial classics', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1997; 1997-11-1; Advertising; American literature; etc.; Hand washing; hygiene; imitations; Medicine; Other; Parodies; Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh; Public service

'A woman in the Pennsylvania silk-mills', Harpers

Tags: 1910; 1910-4-1; 1910s; Employment; Engineering; Industrial; Industrial relations; manufacturing; Pennsylvania; Production; Research; Sanville, Florence L.; Women silk industry workers; Young women

'A guild of carpenter-ants', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1906; 1906-7-1; Behavior; Biology; Carpenter ants; Entomology; McCook, Henry C. (Henry Christopher); Nests; Pennsylvania; Zoology