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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...
John M. Moses '53, of Thayer Hall, was reported long overdue early this morning on his private plane flight from Bridgeport, Conn. to Boston. All night searching parties in both Sunapee N.H., and Buzzards Bay, Mass., were hunting for planes which had reportedly crashed in each area, but at 3 a.m. neither place reported any success...
Moses, who was returning from the Yale game, has owned a war surplus North American AT-6 trainer for a year and a half. He took off at Bridgeport at 4:45 p.m. yesterday and was due at Logan Airport at 5:40 p.m. Civil Aeronautics Administration officials reported...
...Atlas Corp. its 70% ownership of Manhattan's fast-growing, nine-store Franklin Simon & Co., Inc. chain of specialty shops. Like Greenfield, Odium had also gone into the department-store business during the depression. He had spent $750,000 expanding Franklin Simon, opening branches in Atlanta, Washington, Cleveland, Bridgeport, Garden City, East Orange. He lifted its gross from $10 million to $20 million, turned a $148,000 loss into a 1948 profit of $306,000. He had sold out because "we don't like to stick with any proposition more than three to ten years. We had done...
Last week, at the President's request, White House Troubleshooter John R. Steelman designated nine such areas: New Bedford and Worcester, Mass., Waterbury and Bridgeport, Conn., Providence, R.I.,Utica-Rome, N.Y., Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Muskegon, Mich, and Knoxville, Tenn...