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Boomerang. In booming Bridgeport, Conn., Federal Bankruptcy Court was scheduled to close at year's end, for lack of business...
Workmen at the Remington Arms Co. plant in Bridgeport, Conn, call the incendiary "Blue Goose" (because its nose is colored blue, to differentiate it from other types of ammunition). The bullets are made in a secret area where visitors are barred and all workers must wear a special uniform. Neatest trick yet performed with the projectile: destroying a Japanese cargo vessel. U.S. flyers did that by dropping their belly fuel tanks on the ship's deck, then raking them with blue geese. The ship burned briskly...
Died. Julia Etta Willkie, 57, Wendell Willkie's versatile elder sister; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bridgeport, Conn. The family's firstborn, she majored in Greek at Indiana U. (summa cum laude, '08), taught languages at Indiana's Manchester College after postgraduate philolo-gizing in Europe. She translated for the U.S. Government during World War I, took a law degree (1916) and shared the Elwood practice of her father, later worked in Ontario as a skilled bacteriologist. At the time of her death she headed the priorities section of United Aircraft's Bridgeport division...
...Providence, R.I., about 40% of all the high-school students hold jobs. In Connecticut cities (Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, New Britain) 4,748 out of 17,295 students work outside school hours-apart from those in street trades and domestic jobs. Half of 10,213 Seattle high-school students are working part time. Over 60% of the upper graders in a Pennsylvania school had jobs, as did 92% of the seniors in a Midwestern boys' technical school. In 1940 there were about 1,000,000 14-17-year-olds at work; now there are about...
Actress Katherine Cornell wrote to Soviet People's Artist Alia Tarasova. Industrial Bridgeport, Conn, sent greetings to the citizens of industrial Gorki...