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Proud Utility. One of the few large independent utility companies is United Illuminating Co. which furnishes New Haven and Bridgeport with electricity. Long has it been understood that United Gas-Improvement Co. of Philadelphia and the Fitkin interests (Abraham Edward and Willis Fitkin) have sought to obtain control of United. Last week United's directors proposed that stock in the company be trusteed for 15 years to assure local control. Mechanics of the plan involve formation of a new company, Illuminating Shares Co., issuance of two shares in this company for each share of United deposited. United Illuminating stock...
...Connecticut citizens. Few of the scores of thousands of voters who poured forth to mark ballots for him had any real idea he could win from Boss Roraback's man, Lieut. Governor Ernest E. Rogers. In August the State had looked pretty Democratic ? especially the big cities like Bridgeport and New Haven and some of the little ones like Danbury. But by the opening of hunting season the Republican workers were telling each other, with even more confidence than after the Smith scare of 1928, that there was no crevice in the Wooden Nutmeg. The nippy dawn...
...Bridgeport, Conn, last week Sikorsky Aviation Corp. revealed to newsmen the nearly completed hulls of two 40-passenger amphibians being built for Central and South American routes of Pan American Airways, Inc. The planes will be the largest amphibians in the world, the only larger heavier-than-air craft being the Dornier DO-X and the Junkers G-38. Powered by four 575 h.p. Hornet engines, the 8-40 is designed to fly nonstop 500 mi. with 40 passengers, 1,000 mi. with 20. In general conformation the 8-40 will resemble the 10-passenger Sikorsky amphibian now in common...
...Haven, Conn., October 30--The Harvard University and Freshman cross country teams arrived at Bridgeport this evening, where they will spend the night before coming on to New Haven for the races tomorrow afternoon...
This afternoon at 4.25 o'clock the University and Freshman cross country teams will entrain for Bridgeport, where they will spend the night prior to the dual meets with Yale, tomorrow afternoon at New Haven. A squad of 20 men, ten of the University squad and ten Freshmen will make the trip...