Word: hartford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pages of testimony, and inspecting 5.000 documentary exhibits. In his 117-page decision, Judge Walter C. Lindley said: A. & P. was guilty of conspiring "to monopolize a substantial part" of the country's food business. Also guilty: twelve A. & P. subsidiaries and 16 officers, including President John A. Hartford and his brother, Board Chairman George Hartford...
Said A. & P. President Hartford: "Our company grew to its present size because we believed it was better to sell 200 Ibs. of butter at 1? a pound profit than 100 Ibs. at 2? a pound profit." What President Hartford propounded was the basic idea on which U.S. mass production and mass retailing is based. But if the higher courts do not overrule last week's decision, those ideas may cost each defendant as much as a $10,000 fine and two years in prison. And eventually U.S. consumers may find themselves paying more for their food...
...Hartford, Conn, lives a man who has proved that the mating cycles of many birds and animals can be controlled by artificially altering the length of their days & nights (TIME, June 28, 1943). His name is Dr. Thomas Hume Bissonnette, and he is Trinity College's photoperiodist. Last week Dr. Bissonnette quoted Tennyson...
MALCOLM MOSESSON Hartford, Conn...
...East Hartford, Conn., two months ago, 1,200 members of the International Association of Machinists walked out of the Hamilton Standard Propellers Division of the United Aircraft Corp. Chief demand: a 30% pay increase. After weeks of negotiations the company made its final offer and flatly announced it would reopen the plant on Aug. 7. Union officials did not accept the terms, but 800 employes crossed the picket line and went back to work. Previously overstaffed, the company mailed layoff notices...