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...company varied the formula. By that time M. M. & M. was making safety valves, pressure gauges, industrial thermometers and other industrial control equipment in Bridgeport and Boston, but it was selling 80% of its products to only 100 customers. By 1937 it multiplied the number of its customers 40 times by the simple expedient of expanding its list of products, a plan followed so thoroughly that 70% of last year's $10,000,000 business was in products such as Hancock Bronze Valves, Consolidated Power Control Valves, and Hancock Turbo-Injectors, which the company was not making...
...Bishop Takach had won instant approval by ordaining married men to the priesthood. But in 1929 another apostolic letter was issued by the Vatican, this one forbidding bishops to appoint married priests to Greek Rite posts. Bishop Takach obeyed the order, but in Bridgeport, Conn., a priest dared not only oppose it but circularized Greek Catholic churches to stir up more opposition. This priest, a widower named Rev. Orestes Peter Chornock, was thereupon removed from his rich, comfortable Bridgeport parish, rusticated to a tiny church in Roebling...
...notorious midwest bank robbers, who liked to boast that John Dillinger was only a "creampuff" bandit. These diminutive badmen (all three between 5 ft. 5 in. and 5 ft. 6 in. tall) escaped from a Greenfield, Ind. jail on Oct. 11, 1936, left a trail that grew cold near Bridgeport, Conn...
...began flying in Russia in 1908, flew in the War, left Russia after the Revolution and is now the leading U. S. builder of flying boats. Sikorsky's chief engineer is Russian Michael Gluhareff, Brother Serge Gluhareff, authority on structural design, is also in the Sikorsky plant at Bridgeport...
...round numbers, called it 100,000. It was 60,000 at the least. There were some women, a few children, but for the most part only men, able-bodied men in their working years-more than one might find by rounding up the entire adult male population of Bridgeport, Conn., or Nashville, Tenn., or Long Beach. Calif., or the whole State of Nevada. If it was a mob then Detroit was seeing the biggest industrial mob scene* in modern U. S. history. The crowd milled quietly but listened too as, in a hoarse droning roar from the loudspeakers, Homer Martin...