Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apart from the National City Bank, America's billion-dollar concerns consist of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the U. S. Steel Corporation, the Standard Oil of New Jersey, and the Pennsylvania and the New York Central railroad systems...
...only real advance made was in casualties among a few favorite sons: Ferris of Michigan dropped out on the 8th ballot; Silzer of New Jersey, on the 9th; Harrison of Mississippi, on the 15th; Brown of New Hampshire, on the 16th; Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska, on the 20th, al- though he got a handful of votes from the 52nd on; Davis of Kansas dwindled out on the 51st; Cox of Ohio practically disappeared on the 65th; Ralston, after making a brave run in the 50's, dropped out for a time. Seventeen states never altered their vote during...
Maryland nominated Governor Albert C. Ritchie. The speech was well received. Maryland paraded, carrying the flag of Lord Baltimore. Michigan, New Jersey, Delaware, Minnesota joined...
...Jersey sent up John E. Matthews to nominate Governor Silzer. New Jersey started a jaded parade, followed by New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. A pretty girl on the platform turned round and round, holding aloft the Governor's picture; another waved a flag; a glee club yowled intermittently. It was hard work, but lasted almost half an hour. Another New Jerseyan seconded Mr. Silzer...
...more volatile gasoline. The general idea of this process was invented more than 60 years ago. The patents on it have expired. The Government charges that the only patents still extant are trivial and relate only to details of the "cracking" process. Five companies, the Standard Oil of New Jersey, the Standard Oil of Indiana, the Standard Development Co., the Texas Co., the Gasoline Products Co., are accused of controlling these minor patents, pooling them, and licensing them to other companies under contracts which restrict trade and increase unnecessarily the cost of gasoline by heavy royalties. Forty-five companies...