Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week of made-in-Moscow headlines, the U.S., across lunch counters, through stern editorials and in Washington debate, stirred with a sober realization that the nation faces a possibility of war over Berlin. "The countdown has begun," said Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, as he called for national unity. Connecticut Democrat Thomas J. Dodd, touching off a notable Senate debate (see The Congress), warned that the U.S. may be facing "the supreme and ultimate test," and called for a 90-day "program of the utmost urgency." In Topeka, Kans. sometime G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Alf Landon warned: "We have seen...
...Eisenhower had picked Clare Boothe Luce to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Brazil-the U.S.'s first woman envoy to a Latin American country. Sometime journalist (managing editor of Vanity Fair at 29), playwright (The Women), movie author and scenarist (Come to the Stable) and Congresswoman (from Connecticut, 1943-47), Clare Luce, 55, served as U.S. Ambassador to Italy for 3½ eventful years-1953-56. During her service in Rome, Communism's threat to Italy was decisively broken, and she helped settle the explosive old quarrel between Italy and Yugoslavia over Trieste...
Bill Tripp set to work on the fiberglass design in 1956 for a Connecticut lawyer named Frederick Lorenzen, who was dissatisfied with wooden boats ("I don't like them. They leak"). Many small boats have been built of fiber glass, but few of ocean-racing size. At the Beetle Boat Co. in East Greenwich, R.I., a fiberglass mold was built around a wooden mockup of Tripp's design. From the mold came the racers themselves, including Rhubarb, Southern Star II and Lorenzen's boat Seal. Last year the three sister yawls performed beautifully in the Newport...
Last week Continental ended its most ambitious drive to recruit "65-Plus" policyholders in seven states-New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware-and the District of Columbia. Previously Continental had offered the plan in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and California, and it is expected to add more states soon...
There is only one official U.S. function that a Government monopoly entrusts to a private monopoly. The company is Connecticut's Pitney-Bowes, Inc. P-B makes, sells, rents and services the postage metering machines* that print and postmark more than $1 billion worth of stamps on business mail every year. This not only saves millions in postal handling costs for the U.S., but it brings to P-B exceptionally high profits of 9? per revenue dollar. P-B announced this week that 1958 earnings rose 7% to $4.4 million on gross income of $51.3 million. P-B will...