Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grocers & Grousing. In Elwood, Ind., Grocer Harrison Holmes listened to a customer complain for an hour about rationing, got a gun and shot him dead. In Hartford, Conn., Grocer Salvatore Viola announced that he was tired of his job. Said he: "I will quit and go pick dandelions...
...helicopter can land safely almost anywhere (newsmen at United Aircraft Corp.'s plant in Hartford recently saw one put down atop a mountainous snow pile). It can travel faster than a motorcycle, hover or land where no motorcycle could travel (e.g., a wooded mountaintop). It could also be used for rescuing injured men from plane crashes in inaccessible places, might also be handy for artillery spotting. With floats it can land and take off either from water or land. If its engine fails, the helicopter can land without power, unwinding earthward at leisurely speed. It can travel through murky...
...Hillyer Junior College, Hartford, Connecticut, and Portland Junior College, Portland, Maine, have recieved orders and will report at Fort Devens on February 12. A release from the headquarters of the First Service Command could not give any more definite date for the larger colleges except "in the next few weeks...
...East Hartford, Conn...
From Henry Ford's Willow Run plant, where he has been doing engineering research, Charles Augustus Lindbergh moved on a part-time basis last week to Hartford, Conn. He wants to do his high-altitude work closer to the industrial parent of the 2,000-h.p. engines Ford is manufacturing to power bombers and fighters. As an engineer for United Aircraft Corp., Pilot Lindbergh is back at the job he likes best -improving aircraft engines. As he has done for Ford, he will continue to go above 35,000 feet to test the devices he and other technicians develop...