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...Brass. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce elected a new president: the Bridgeport Brass Co.'s big, friendly President-Chairman Herman W. Steinkraus, 58. As boss of Bridgeport Brass's 5,000 employees, Steinkraus has not had a strike or a work stoppage, has been so successful at labor relations that other employers often seek him as a speaker on the subject. He succeeds General Electric's Vice President Earl O. Shreve...
...prestige to be gained from stopping the Crusaders this year. They have beaten six of the seven college teams they have faced so far, one of which is EIBL-leading Dartmouth. Yale is the only college nine which has defeated Holy Cross this season. In addition, the Purple downed Bridgeport of the Class B Colonial League, and also rapped Providence...
...theory that a P. T. Barnum isn't born every minute, Connecticut's Bridgeport, Bethel and Danbury, angling for a Barnum commemorative postage stamp, wrangled over which of them was the birthplace of the Bethel-born showman...
...many a jungle-slogging G.I., Bridgeport Brass Co.'s DDT bug bomb was almost as good a friend as his rifle. When the war ended, the company dressed up its Aer-a-sol (DDT expelled by Freon gas) dispenser in civilian clothes, and struck a retail bonanza. Last week Bridgeport Brass thought it saw more pay dirt; it planned to apply the Aer-a-sol principle to dozens of other products...
...company has already put out an Aer-a-sol dispenser to spray a protective plastic coating on metal, leather and other shiny surfaces ($2.95 for the 12-oz. size); another releases a phfft! of chemicals to eliminate household odors ($1.89 for the 12-oz. size). This summer Bridgeport will have a bomb loaded with suntan lotion, and before long, one loaded with paint for touching up around the house. Also in the works are gadgets which might some day become landmarks of 20th Century civilization: spray bombs for perfume, hair lacquer and under-arm deodorants...