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Word: amboy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terminal facilities, the Port of New York Authority is an independent interstate agency. Its non-salaried commissioners are appointed by the two Governors. Each State contributes to it $100,000 annually. By issuing its own bonds amortized by tolls, it built the Outerbridge Crossing (Staten Island to Perth Amboy. N. J.); the Goethals Bridge (Staten Island to Elizabeth. N. J.): the Bayonne Bridge (Staten Island to Bayonne. N. J.); the George Washington Bridge (Manhattan to Fort Lee. N. J.). It also owns and operates profitably the Holland Vehicular Tunnel, is now planning a second vehicular tube under the Hudson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 29, 1932 | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

Born. To Morgan Foster Larson, one-time (1929-32) Governor of New Jersey & Mrs. Larson; a daughter; in Perth Amboy, N. J. Name: Joan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 29, 1932 | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...They simply laid down on the ground when night came. They were bloodthirsty. They liked to drink the warm blood of animals they killed, as you would a glass of milk. They talked to each other with some sort of grunts-umfa umfa-glug glug." Thus did a Perth Amboy, N. J. public school teacher read last week to her sixth grade pupils. One little girl was immeasurably shocked & revolted, went home and told her father. He, Rev. Byron Christopher Nelson, vigorous young Lutheran minister, bounced off to a Kiwanis Club luncheon, read passages from the book, A Child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Umfa Umfa, Glug Glug | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

Married. Morgan Foster Larson, 48, Governor of New Jersey; and Ada Schmidt, 25, Danish companion & secretary of Governor Larson's mother; in a surprise wedding at a family party; in Perth Amboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 1, 1930 | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

Engaged. Esta, daughter of President William F. R. Murrie of Hershey Chocolate Co.; and James Logan Clevenger of Perth Amboy, N. J.; at Hershey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 6, 1930 | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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