Word: hartford
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Another innovation is the process of printing the Illustrated. This issue will be printed by the new photo-offset process rather than on a letter-press. This follows the lead of many magazines and several recently founded newspapers such as the Hartford Newsdaily and the forthcoming New York daily...
Meantime, moon-faced Horace Wells, a dentist of Hartford, Conn., successfully tried laughing gas on himself before a colleague pulled his tooth. Dazzled with hopes of a fortune, he tried the wonder gas on half-a-dozen patients, then dashed off to Massachusetts General Hospital to demonstrate it. But at the hospital the gas didn't work, and he was hooted...
...York, New Haven & Hartford (in the courts since 1935) will see its common and preferred stockholders wiped out entirely if ICC's plan goes through. Biggest common stockholders: Pennsylvania Railroad and its godchild Pennroad Corp. Curtailed by lCC's plan was P.R.R.'s long-mooted influence over New England traffic. Cut to $365,000,000 was New Haven's $464,833,806 capital structure, its fixed charges from...
...Show. Eliza might cross the ice against a backdrop of the tropics. There were comedy teams, minstrel troupes, animal acts. There were "double shows"-two Uncle Toms, two Topsies, two Legrees; there were even triple shows. Harriet Beecher Stowe once went to see Uncle Tom's Cabin in Hartford and had to have the plot explained...
...Driven by necessity, dentists were pioneers in anesthesia. In 1844, Dentist Horace Wells of Hartford, Conn, inhaled laughing gas (nitrous oxide) before a colleague pulled his tooth. But the public jeered at his "remarkable discovery...