Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SOUTHERN Pacific has joined the New York, New Haven & Hartford in shipping truck trailers on railroad flatcars. The line is converting flatcars to handle trailers, is putting twelve piggyback cars with 240,000 Ibs. of merchandise on its Dallas-Houston, Fort Worth-Houston and Texas-Louisiana runs. ANHEUSERBusch, which opens - its new $15 million Los Angeles brewery (TIME, Oct. 26) this week, is also looking for a bigger share of the Gulf Coast market. It is buying a 150-acre tract at New Orleans, will build a $20 million brewery with a 1,000,000 bbl.-a-year capacity...
...reorganization, New York Financier Patrick B. McGinnis has developed a sharp eye for good buys in railroad stocks. A group he headed got control of the Norfolk Southern Railway Co. in 1947; the following year he helped Frederic C. Dumaine Sr. get control of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, and later got a large chunk of common stock in the Central of Georgia Railway Co. But as a railroad officer, his batting average was not so good: stockholders eased him out last year as board chairman of both the Central of Georgia and Norfolk Southern. He is currently...
Powhatan's Children. In Hartford, Conn., Mary J. Russell, duly elected Keeper of Wampum for the Degree of Pocahontas, pleaded guilty to taking $4,000 from the society's treasury...
...nonsectarian chapel in downtown Denver "the Eisenhower Chapel"; at New York City's Idlewild Airport, ground-breaking ceremonies were held for a Roman Catholic chapel, to be known as "Our Lady of the Skies." ¶ Accepting a "Citizen of the Year" award from the Jewish War Veterans in Hartford, Conn., former Mayor Thomas J. Spellacy, 73, a leading Roman Catholic layman, called attention to a long-forgotten fact: in 1814 the Connecticut state legislature took over a $20,000 fund belonging to the Episcopal Church and never paid it back. The Episcopal bishop of Connecticut, the Rt. Rev. Walter...
Partner's Choice. In Hartford, Conn., Mrs. Joseph Gazik got a divorce after testifying that when her husband had collected 40 cats in their home, she asked him to choose between her and the cats, got a quick answer: "Get out." Better to Give ... In Madison, Wis., after Diane Nelson confessed that she had stolen $12,215 to buy gifts for her boy friend, Albert Hanson, the judge put her on five years' probation, sentenced Hanson to one to eight years...