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"In five months, from March 15 to August 16, 1915, a row of one story brick buildings (bayonet factories) and a parallel row of five story brick buildings (rifle factories) a quarter of a mile long, rose on a site north of the Union Metallic Cartridge Company. Meantime the U.M.C. had not been idle, but had added seven four story brick buildings to its original factory, had increased its usual 2,200 employees to 7,000 and was running three eight hour shifts. All day long a line of men stood outside the Remington Arms Company waiting to be hired and it was said of the firm that one new man joined the force every 20 minutes. Suffice to say that 1,400-1,600 men were taken on every month for nearly a year. In November 1915, 3,000 were employed. By April 1, 1916, the number had jumped to 16,000 and 20,000 more were expected." (excerpted from Elsie Danenberg, The Story of Bridgeport (1936), p. 112.) |