Word: hartford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chesapeake & Ohio rose from 218½ to 274, a gain by similar calculations of $65,542,170. 3) Great Northern preferred,* from 111 to 123½ or $31,193,325. 4) New York Central, from 188 5/8 to 241¾, or $246,362,682. 5) New York, New Haven & Hartford from 81½ to 123¾, or $66,382,313. 6) Northern Pacific from 109 to 108 5/8 or a decrease of $930,000. The seventh is not a railroad company strictly speaking, it is Alleghany Corp., a railroad investment company of the Van Sweringen brothers...
Governor John H. Trumbull, on his way to Canada, hastened back to Hartford by airplane to "straighten out this mess." As he stepped out of the plane, he asked: "What's the matter? As soon as I get out of the state, you boys start raising hell." Promptly he summoned a special session of the legislature to repass en masse all the legislation voided by the court...
Died. Frank T. Gilmore, 65, of Hartford, Conn.; oldtime baseballer; in Hartford. When, in the '80s, Hartford was in the National League, he pitched. His catcher was Connie Mack (Cornelius Mc-Gillicuddy), longtime Philadelphia manager...
...this group of literature that Publisher Macfadden was publishing when Youngman Gauvreau came to him in 1924, asked for a job. While Managing-Editor of The Hartford Courant, Newsman Gauvreau had contributed potboilers to Physical Culture. Publisher Macfadden, about to found the Graphic, hired the Courant's Gauvreau, soon made him Graphic Editor and Publisher...
More successful and profitable than attempts to create gold from mercury is the actual creation of electricity at Hartford, Conn. The Hartford Electric Light Co. has been using a mercury-vapor turbine to run its generators since 1923. That turbine was shut down while last week a second was prepared for operation. William Le Roy Emmet of General Electric Co. invented and developed the machines. General Electric built them...