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Meanwhile, New Haven authorities say that Crimson fans who have not reserved rooms for the weekend will find it impossible to get hotel space. Craig LeVin, owner of the Taft Hotel, advised students who cannot get rooms in New Haven to go to Bridgeport, 20 minutes away...
...Merritt Parkway, the main artery of southeastern Connecticut, was closed to traffic from early morning on. In addition, U.S. 1 was flooded in most localities-especially the city of Bridgeport...
...Detroit nightclub one night last week, the floor show was led by Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams and Bridgeport Brass Co.'s President Herman W. Steinkraus. Wearing white smocks, the two bore down on a 12-ft.-by-8-ft. white fiberboard elephant, proceeded to dab the elephant with pink paint. Then, some 550 Bridgeport Brass employees filed past, finished painting the elephant from trunk to tail...
...painting was to celebrate the way that Bridgeport's Steinkraus has turned a white elephant of a factory at nearby Adrian, Mich. into a healthy pink. Bridgeport Brass took over the plant 22 months ago (after five companies had leased it and given it up in rapid succession) to make aluminum forgings and extrusions, its first major venture into the aluminum business...
...During Bridgeport's first 15 months at the plant, the elephant stayed deathly pale. By mid-1955, losses totaled more than $1,750,000. But Steinkraus was still confident that he could make aluminum production pay. Last week the company was running in the black, and Bridgeport's elephant was getting rosier all the time. The company plans to buy the plant from the Air Force when its lease runs out in 1958, is thinking of adding a rolling mill and will nearly treble the number of its employees as it expands...