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...Labor Department foresaw no grave problems of manpower shortage. "Most companies," it said, "are still operating on a 40-hour week. By going on a 48-hour week, they could easily turn out more goods with the same work force." Some plants had already done so: among them, Bridgeport's Remington Arms Co., the five Ohio factories of Timken Roller Bearing Co. In Indianapolis, General Motors' Allison division canceled the vacations of 8,000 workers, paid them extra to speed its current orders for jet engines and tank transmissions...
...tact he had once been. Before entering politics he had appeared in 18 movies, was Marlene Dietrich's leading man in a 1934 picture called The Scarlet Empress. Beside him stood his pretty, Italian-born wife, Francesca Braggiotti Lodge, onetime dancer, whose singing of Italian songs in Bridgeport's Italian quarter had helped her husband in his races for Congress...
...trains will proceed direct to the Thames Shore tracks with intermediate stops at Back Bay, Providence, and Westerly for the Boston train, and Stamford, South Norwalk, Bridgeport, and New Haven for the New York train...
...other speakers who addressed the meeting were Harold R. Bixler, Executive Vice-President of the Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce, and Theodore E. Veltfort, Manager of the Copper and Brass Research Association. The forum was the third in a series sponsored by the Office of Student Placement...
Harold R. Bixler, Executive Vice-President of the Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce, Norman MacDonald, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Associations, and Theodore E. Veltfort, Manager of the Copper and Brass Research Association, will be the three speakers...