Word: fitchburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even bother to put out the Democratic incumbent, Marcus Allen Coolidge. Senator Coolidge was simply dumped by the wayside; the Democratic convention automatically endorsed Mr. Curley. By way of protest to Massachusetts' respectable citizens, the Senator's son-in-law, Mayor Robert E. Greenwood of Fitchburg, ran against the Governor in the primary. The best he could do was a skimpy 104,000 votes...
...clubs in China but is largely a North American affair with 85,000 members, 2,700 clubs. Only Civitan International club outside the U. S. is in Toronto. The Civitans have less than 5,000 members, only 125 clubs. Chief Civitan is Charles Francis Cowdrey Jr., a Fitchburg, Mass. machinery maker...
...Alvan Tracy Simonds, a topnotch U. S. capitalist with a brain. A member of the Simonds Saws family, he is president of prosperous Simonds Saw & Steel Co. of Fitchburg, Mass. Six years ago he and his two brothers decided to put their century-old business into an astonishing new factory: one five-acre room without windows. Executives and machines were to work side by side, their noises deadened by sound-absorbing ceilings; machines were to be bright orange against black floors to prevent accidents by making everything conspicuous; walls and ceilings, part blue to reflect ultraviolet rays, part green...
...Ellen who invented the standardized paper pattern for clothes. Plodding, methodical Ebenezer, seventh son of a Sterling, Mass, carpenter, sat down in his tailor shop in June 1863 and snipped out of 'stiff paper the first commercial shirt patterns. They sold like hotcakes. But when the Buttericks moved to Fitchburg it was ambitious Ellen who got Ebenezer to double his market by making patterns for children's clothes. Because Giuseppe Garibaldi was then a world hero, Ellen and Ebenezer designed their children's patterns after the Italian Liberator's uniform, called them "Garibaldi suits." Within a year they had opened...
...preliminary to the Varsity-Princeton game, the Jayvee cagers will play Fitchburg Normal tonight at 7 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building...