Word: bridgeport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harold R. Bixler, Executive Vice-President of the Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce, Norman MacDonald, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Associations, and Theodore E. Veltfort, Manager of the Copper and Brass Research Association, will be the three speakers...
Herman W. Steinkraus, Connecticut manufacturer (Bridgeport Brass Co.) and president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, saw the same danger. "Every group is pressing on Washington to get more, more, more," said Steinkraus at a Cincinnati luncheon . . . "If we keep on this spending spree at the rate we are going . . . our tax burden will become well-nigh intolerable." The nation, he added, is "very near that point which economists refer to as the 'peril point...