Word: naugatuck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recipienin are Te-k'un Cheng 1G, of Kulangan, Amoy, China; John IL, Cox 1G, of Naugatuck, Cohn.; James It, Hightower 2G, of Canton, China; Yueh-hwa Lin 2G, of Foochow, China; Bu-yu Teng 1G, of Hunan, China; and Arthur F. Wright 2G, of Portland...
...also an educator who was once an artilleryman, outranking Lt. Kitson by having been a major during the war. Like Dr. Kitson, President Engelhardt moved East from the University of Minnesota. Removal to New England is by way of being a homecoming for him. He was born at Naugatuck, Conn., 52 years ago, studied at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, at Yale, Harvard and Columbia. Leaving an instructorship at Yale in 1909, he acquired a thorough acquaintanceship with public schools by teaching in them and administering them in New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois...
Oldest of GTI's two venerable subsidiaries is Seth Thomas, which dates back to 1813 when a young Yankee gathered tools and helpers to make grandfather clocks in Connecticut's Naugatuck Valley. At first the parts were wooden and fitted only one clock. Later clockmakers shifted to brass and eventually evolved precision methods, interchangeable parts. Clock-making was the first real mass production in the U. S. No Connecticut craftsman built better than Seth Thomas I, few as well, and by 1853 he had sold enough clocks to organize a formal company with $75,000 capital, sizable money...
...Haven, Conn.: "Public, private and parochial schools in Waterbury, Derby, Naugatuck, Wolcott, Southington and other towns near here will remain closed indefinitely due to the number of cases of infantile paralysis...
...real troubles began in 1928 when Connecticut suspended his license for trying to fly under a bridge in the centre of his home town of Naugatuck. In 1929 he was fined $500 for low flying and stunting in the same State. When he failed to pay the fine, the Department of Commerce revoked his license. Unchastened, Acosta was arrested by State troopers in 1930 for flying without a license in Connecticut...