Word: hartford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hartford...
Labor relations had become so bad at the Niles-Bement-Pond Co. machine-tool plant in Hartford, Conn. that they could only change for the better. The company's president, Harvardman Charles Walton Deeds, 44, was good at making money (he ran a $40 stake in Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. into a $1,600,000 profit). But he was stiff-necked in his dealings with employees. The C.I.O. United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union, which was heavily sprinkled with Communist leaders, was just as tough as President Deeds. Last year their mutual toughness resulted in a bitter...
Notably absent from the celebration was rangy Frederic B. Rentschler, chairman of United Aircraft. Modest Fred Rentschler, who did not want to steal any glory from Chance Vought's general manager, Rex Beisel, was on his farm, "Renbrook," in West Hartford. As usual, he had taken home a batch of work. Rentschler's homework has paid United some handsome dividends...
...nonagonal track meet, the biggest three-ring spectacle of the moment is now playing at the Boston Garden. With a penchant for extravagance matched only by the verbosity of the publicity men, John Ringling North and assistants have made their bold bid to recoup the loss of the 1944 Hartford fire, and if mere bustle and flourish are any criterion of success, they've hit the tin can squarely with the bottle. Twenty-two Sensational Displays Where Daredeviltry Beggars Description, a Mammoth Menagerie and a Block-Busting Convention of 115 Cavorting Clowns assure enough show time for any calliope...
...free and open speech on medical subjects." The Fairfield County Medical Society solemnly resolved: ". . . Violation of their right of freedom of speech guaranteed by the state and federal Constitutions." At week's end, as citizens flocked to the doctors' support, there was ominous talk of retaliation. The Hartford Ministers' Association and the Plainville Council of Churches passed resolutions suggesting that state aid and tax exemption be withdrawn from Roman Catholic hospitals...