Word: hartford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smoking little flame wavered higher up the side of the cavernous tent in the big lot at Hartford, Conn. The thousands of women and their children, and the scattering of coatless men massed in the bleachers, sat quietly, second after second, watching the high-wire performers of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show On Earth. They breathed the circus smells of peanuts and tigers, in the hot afternoon air, and listened to the thumping circus music. Some of them watched the harmless-looking little fire crawling up the canvas...
...nightfall, after hours in which telephone exchanges were jammed with calls, and in which hospital staffs and volunteer workers of all kinds toiled in the humid heat which oppressed the city, Hartford knew how badly it had been hurt. In the worst circus disaster in U.S. history, 128 bodies lay on army cots, neatly set out on the drill floor of the grey, stone State Guard Armory, and others were arriving. More than half the bodies there, and more than half the swathed, drugged forms in the crowded hospitals were children. Almost all the rest were women. Hartford...
...tent near a canvas section raised as a men's restroom. Why did the tent burn with that celluloid fierceness? Circus men said the 19-ton big top had been sprayed with a waterproofing solution last April. It had not been inspected before the show by the Hartford fire marshal...
When a doctor and the Hartford police arrived an hour later, they could piece together only part of the mystery. Mrs. Higginson had gone out to dinner the night before, leaving the children in charge of a 16-year-old Negro boy. She returned about 10:30 and dismissed the "sitter." She was found next day in the trench coat in which she entered the house. The police questioned the baby-tender and believed his story. Mrs. Higginson's broken wrist watch indicated that the attack had come, apparently from behind, at 11:15. There had been no attempt...
...work to pull Colt out of its queer hole, if anyone could. Gunman Anthony, born in Shelby, N.C., graduated from North Carolina State College into a job in a machine shop. By the black days of 1932 he was president of Veeder-Root, Inc. (mechanical counting devices) in Hartford, Conn. Veeder-Root was on the downgrade, as were so many firms, and losing money. Anthony managed to stop the skid and make Veeder-Root profitable. He is still board chairman. His strategy to save Colt: "Get out the guns...