Word: hartford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. J. Harold Murray, 49, handsome hero of Ziegfeld's Rio Rita, many another Broadway musical of the '20s, who retired from the stage in 1935, bought himself an interest in a Hartford brewery; at Killingworth, Conn...
February 8: Hartford Fencers Club at Harvard...
Last August, Son Edsel Ford and tough, brilliant Production Manager Charles E. Sorensen visited Hartford, Conn., where Pratt & Whitney had already upped its capacity nearly ten times since January 1939. Abuilding were factory additions which would double the August capacity, give P. & W. a production rate of 17,000 to 20,000 engines a year by late 1941. Said Charles Sorensen: "I did not believe such a stupendous job could be done in such a short time." Then he went back to Detroit, broke ground for an $11,000,000 engine plant there before he got his contract...
Irving M. Fried '42, Strafford, Pa.; Frank S. Fuesner '42, Cincinnati, Ohio.; William Gay '41, New Hartford, Conn.; Viasios Georgian '41, North Quincy, Mass.; Thomas P. Glym '42, Colebrook, Conn.; Edwin B. Good all Jr. '41, Newton Center, Mass...
...companies put out promising engine news. Curtiss-Wright's President Guy Warner Vaughan mounted a tractor-plow, broke ground for a huge new factory at Lockland (Hamilton County), Ohio. Pratt & Whitney's co-founder and chairman, Frederick Brant Rentschler, opened two additions to his factory at East Hartford, Conn., announced that still more space will be ready next spring...