. 85 GRINDING AND POLISHING HISTORY O F THE HOUSE O F & F . C O R B I N not entertain any proposition that would identify with this company the interestsof any other. Therefore, when the announcement was made in the NewBritain papers of February 24, 1902, that preparations were being made tomerge P. & F. Corbin and the Russell & Erwin Manufacturing Company intoone company, to be known as the American Hardware Corporation, the newsoccasioned much comment. Of all the possible combinations, this one seemedto the average New Britain citi
. 85 GRINDING AND POLISHING HISTORY O F THE HOUSE O F & F . C O R B I N not entertain any proposition that would identify with this company the interestsof any other. Therefore, when the announcement was made in the NewBritain papers of February 24, 1902, that preparations were being made tomerge P. & F. Corbin and the Russell & Erwin Manufacturing Company intoone company, to be known as the American Hardware Corporation, the newsoccasioned much comment. Of all the possible combinations, this one seemedto the average New Britain citizen the least likely to occur, for the memory ofold rivalries were still strong, but in reality it was the most reasonable ofarrangements. Two immense plants, making goods of the same generalcharacter, can naturally be most economically managed by a single governingbody; the advantage of combining the purchases to get the benefit of largequantities is manifest, the universal confidence in Philip Corbins sagacity andbusiness foresight, born of a l
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