Word: hartfords
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Whether or not business losses are actually as large as the businessmen claim, Blue Laws are archaic. Not because Hartford merchants make money and Boston merchants don't, but because it is foolish to inconvenience people by a law based on sentiments which few of them share. It may not always be necessary to close a real estate deal on Sunday, but it is necessary often enough, and offensive to few enough people, that it should not be prohibited by law. As for holidays, they should, as the commission noted, be treated separately. Whatever their origins, holidays in this country...
Last October 12, if one is to believe the vice-president of Boston's Retail Trade Board, hordes of starving Bay Staters crossed over into New Hampshire and Connecticut to buy the goods-nay, necessities-which their own state's laws forbade them to purchase. Storekeepers in Hartford had a field day (sales up 34%), while their Massachusetts counterparts sulked at home and watched the parade which (for the nonce) replaced the extravaganza of Filene's Bargain Basement. Presumably these scenes were repeated last Saturday, when once again the Puritan ethic got the better of the spirit of capitalism...
Action is being taken against Tropic in Chicago suburbs, Marin County, San Francisco, and Hartford, as well as Dallas. New Jersey, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire are also moving to ban the book...
...girl in Hartford, Conn., Ruth Siegel suffered severe and frequent nosebleeds. As she grew older they got worse, sometimes occurring daily and costing her a cupful or more of blood. Last week, to stop her nosebleeds. Ruth Siegel Ribicoff, 51, wife of the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, underwent a new operation-the first effective treatment that medical science has been able to devise in half a century of trying...
...anywhere-is as great today as it was for the Massachusetts settlers in 1636 who migrated over an old Indian trail into the Connecticut Valley wilderness (and thereby established what is now approximately U.S. Route 20 between Boston and Sturbridge, Mass., and State Route 15 from Sturbridge to Hartford, Conn.). That compulsion has translated itself into astonishing figures. There are about 3,500,000 miles of roads in the U.S. today, and 61 million autos. The nation's toll roads, which now total 3,254 miles, bring in about $475 million a year in revenues. Abuilding...