Word: hartford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Observation. In Hartford, a missing diamond ring that had been sought for over two weeks was finally found by a blind man. It was on the ground floor of the State Capitol...
...original production (1934) in Hartford, Conn., people actually wept at the Cellophane scenery, the lovely costumes, the adroit stage business, and Harlem Negroes singing Miss Stein's screwball words about St. Therese, St. Ignatius, some 30 other saints. Last week the audience controlled itself better...
...Mount Vernon, N.Y., a squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) scampered across high-tension wires, caused a short circuit that broke a wire which fell on oil-soaked ties, starting a fire that held up traffic on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad for an hour...
...Swebilius went on working in gun laboratories and factories, in 1926 founded High Standard (to make sporting rifles, pistols). Last fall, the British wanted quick production of a .50-caliber Browning to mount in fighters (eight per British plane). Because Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Co. at Hartford was bogged in other orders, High Standard got a license to make the British guns...
Normal time for getting into such production is a year to 18 months. Said Colonel Robert Sears, executive officer of the Army's Hartford Ordnance District, when Swebilius & colleagues showed their first guns last week: "If these men had come to me during normal times and said that a little old plant employing 100 men could produce .50-caliber machine guns in less than six months, we would have given them a horse laugh heard around the world...