Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...damage. An Air Force steward put an enormous breakfast tray in front of him (orange juice, cantaloupe, filet mignon, mashed potatoes, Melba toast and coffee), but Ike, preoccupied with the tragedy below, merely toyed with his meal. As the Columbine cruised slowly over Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, low cloud formations closed in, and Ike got only occasional views of the flooded areas. Allentown, Pa. floated underneath, between cloud drifts, looking untouched by the flood. Over Connecticut, the clouds opened up long enough for the President to get a good look at the swollen Naugatuck River...
...planned to fly over crippled Putnam and other towns in eastern Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, but Pilot William Draper was unwilling to continue in the face of turbulent weather and poor visibility. At 8:48 a.m.. the Columbine landed at Hartford's Bradley Field. At the airport were six governors, with a swarm of Government and Red Cross officials. In a nearby hangar, Ike listened while each governor in turn outlined the damage to his state. After the hour-long conference, the President promised that the Government would do everything possible, and appealed to the public...
...Thumb & Bride. There was a lot of Tiffany character and tradition to preserve. The company's elegant pattern was fashioned by Charles Tiffany, then a 25-year-old country storekeeper from Connecticut who borrowed $1,000 from his mill-owner father, and with a friend set up a fine stationery and pottery shop on lower Broadway. Though the partners took in only $4.98 in the first three days, sales picked up when they started importing Dresden porcelain and Parisian jewelry. Then, with political upheavals in France, diamond prices tumbled 50% in Europe, and Tiffany's bought...
Tiffany's, founded in 1837 by Connecticut-born Charles Lewis Tiffany, has always served the rich and the successful, and always disdained flamboyance (from 1905 to 1935 it even refused to put its name over the door). It still uses hand-drawn advertisements, refuses to sell cultured pearls, shies away from setting or even appraising any gem not bought at Tiffany's. Its personnel seems changeless too. Out of 617 employees, 258 have been with the company more than 25 years, two of its officers are direct heirs of Founder Tiffany, and President Moore is a great-grandson...
...been for the war, handsome young Brad Parker would have automatically climbed the masthead of his father-in-law's Connecticut newspaper and remained true to his socialite wife Jane. If it had not been for the war, lovely, English Valerie Russell would never have become a Red Cross girl, and fallen in love with Brad while still the tacit fiancee of slim, tight-lipped John Wynter. What Brad and Val do to John and Jane and each other in this story of hand-holding across the seas in wartime makes for a slack tale slickly told...