Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vividly. The memory did not prevent them from turning their skill to guns again in this war, but it did cause the farsighted ones to calculate how another post-war deflation could be prevented. In all New England, there is no more farsighted businessman than Sam Ferguson, boss of Hartford Electric Light...
...Some other leading industrial designers noted for work on U.S. railroads: Henry Dreyfuss, who designs for the New York Central; Walter Dorwin Teague, who has done de luxe coaches for the New York, New Haven & Hartford; Paul Cret, who designs interiors for stainless-steel trains of Edward G. Budd Manufacturing...
...mercury turbine was first conceived about 1912 by the late William LeRoy Emmett. He tinkered with small-scale machines in G.E. laboratories until 1922, when the progressive Hartford (Conn.) Electric Light Co. volunteered to install a 1,800-kilowatt mercury plant for commercial power production. It was not a thumping success, nor were two 20,000-kw. plants built for the New Jersey's Public Service Electric & Gas Co. at Kearny and for G.E. at Schenectady...
...passenger fares by 10%, thus adding an estimated $45,000,000 to 1942 revenues, subtracting a like amount from the commuter-consumer's purse. Principal beneficiaries: the Pennsylvania, which stands to gain about $9 million; New York Central, $6.5 million; Southern Pacific, $3.1 million; New York, New Haven & Hartford, $3 million...
...Hartford, Mich...