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Merger in Meriden. For over 100 years Charles Parker Co. of Meriden, Conn., has made hardware specialties and since the Civil War, the famed Parker shotgun. Last fortnight the company expanded by acquiring the business of Artistic Bronze Co. of Bridgeport, manufacturer of refrigerator accessories, builders' hardware, art lamps...
When he won the U. S. Open at Skokie in 1922, Gene Sarazen was the second caddy-bred U. S. professional of other than Scotch or English descent to reach the top. He was raised in Bridgeport, son of an Italian contractor. The first man was Walter Hagen, son of a German greenskeeper in Rochester. Now the U. S. tournaments are full of Ciucis, Espinosas, Kozaks, Turnesas, and the U. S. open champion is Billy Burke, born Burkowski, son of a Lithuanian steel worker...
That question was the dynamite. President Hoover knew last week that in New Haven, Conn. Winchester Repeating Arms Co. had just taken on more workers, while in Bridgeport, Conn. Remington Arms Co. had suddenly done the same. Officials of these companies admitted that they had abruptly hired "several hundred" employes, thus relieving unemployment to that extent. To interfere with U. S. business was something the Hoover Administration had to think over. There was also the "political dynamite" that any close alignment of the U. S. with the League might affect Mr. Hoover's popularity just sufficiently to make...
...April to form Electric & Musical Industries, Ltd. Columbia's properties, which will pass to Grigsby-Grunow, include U. S. factories where are made Columbia phonographs and records, and patent & trade mark rights to Columbia's name in North & South America. The combined companies will have plants in Chicago, Bridgeport, Los Angeles, will be one of the largest makers of radio sets in the U. S. Also important: Grigsby-Grunow acquires worldwide Columbia marketing outlets. The voting trustees of Columbia Phonograph Co. who made the announcement are: President Henry Cantwell Cox, Artemus L. Gates, president of New York Trust...
...greatest test of this Depression. Boston-Continental National Bank, with $7,000,000 in deposits, closed. To another bank went special aid. A run began on world-famed Five Cents Savings Bank, an institution with $102,000,000 in deposits and a reputation for great, solid conservatism. In Bridgeport, Conn., four banks became two banks. In New Haven support was thrown to Broadway National Bank. Whereas in the first nine months of 1931 only two banks failed in all New England, last week's damage brought the total to 22, Massachusetts accounting for most...