Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After nine months as boss of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Patrick B. McGinnis last week made his first year-end report on the state of the road's health. Despite a $1,152,606 net loss before he took over in April, said McGinnis, the New Haven wound up 1954 with a net income of $9,000,000. As a result, he would be able not only to pay off $2,400,000 on the New Haven's income mortgage bonds, but also to hand stockholders a welcome dividend: $1.25 for preferred shareholders...
Ribicoff to a stately inauguration at the Capitol in Hartford, climaxed by a ball (3,000 paying guests at $25 a couple) with a grand march and a midnight sup per. Thus will Abe Ribicoff realize the American dream that, related in an emotional TV campaign speech ("That any boy could aspire to any position . . . and reach any heights"), helped to beat Republican John Lodge...
...Crimson will meet Trinity at Hartford on Saturday, and will play eight further matches this season. "We expect the team to be stronger than last year's squad," said Paul Forand '55, captain. Last year the fencers won three and lost three...
...merger of the Boston and Maine and the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroads proposed recently by New Haven president Patrick B. McGinnis would "not necessarily be harmful to the economic interests of New England," Charles R. Cherington '35, professor of Government, said Monday night...
...others are pushing their own specials to meet the competition. Says one Hartford insurance executive: "We are competing with General Motors and Westinghouse for the average man's dollar, and we admit the average man cannot afford the kind of insurance coverage that he needs." The trend has shaken the insurance business to its deep and respectable foundations. The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. (No. 11 in the U.S.) has vigorously opposed the specials. In Life Insurance Courant, New York Underwriter Halsey D. Josephson complains: "The surrender . . . to the expedient of issuing specials . . . may very well be the beginning...