Word: hackensacker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that time, no one except "Mike Scat" could get the garbage-collecting contract. The law provides that a bidder for the contract must own a garbage dump; an incinerator would not do. Mike owns several dumps along New Jersey's Hackensack River, whence he sells his swill by the cubic yard to pig farmers...
Backward, Turn Backward. In San Francisco, a pedestrian stopped by Police Inspector George Page explained why he was walking backward: "I like to read the expressions on the faces of the people who are following me." Subject for Study. In Hackensack, N.J., county jailers greeted Rose Mann, charged with assault & battery, studied her 360 pounds, studied their cell doors, arranged for her release without bail...
...ballet, Drums Sound in Hackensack, proved that Choreographer de Mille, like her movie-directing Uncle Cecil B., has a touch, and the touch made it seem that, among the New Amsterdam Dutch of 1650, there was no situation which would not be improved by a saucy twitch of the rump...
...with a golf club a caddy sued U.S. Treasurer William Alexander Julian (who autographs all paper money) for $10,000. // Errol Flynn collapsed with nervous exhaustion, was hospitalized in Hollywood. // Lightweight Champ Levy Jenkins got a collection of cuts and bruises when he lost control of his motorcycle in Hackensack, N.J., roared off the road and took a nose dive. // C.I.O.'s Phil Murray left the Pittsburgh hospital where he had been since a heart attack July 13. // Dim-witted Al Capone, 260 lb., is growing John Bull sideburns. // Columnist Sidney Skolsky announced that Judy Garland bites her nails...
...Jersey, 84 cases were reported since the beginning of August. Health officers from the entire State were mobilized. Equipment was concentrated at Bergen County's isolation hospital, Bergen Pines. In Hackensack, swimming pools were closed...