Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broken up now ? its pieces, in fact, were all around him: Herbert L. Pratt, Standard Oil of New York; W. T. Holliday, Standard Oil of Ohio; Edward G. Seubert, Standard Oil of Indiana (an absentee was Col. Robert Wright Stewart) ; Walter Clark Teagle, Standard Oil of New Jersey (one good Standard friend of Sir Henri's) ; and, at the other end of a long distance telephone, Kenneth R. Kingsbury, Standard Oil of California. Present also were Harry F. Sinclair, of Sinclair Consolidated, Ralph Clinton Holmes, head of Texas Corp. and of the oil committee that would have to superintend...
...earnings (it would seem that the early reports on the first quarter of 1929 would be arriving before the 1928 list is complete) public utilities were particularly well represented. Great are utilities and large their earnings, but for some reason the report of (say) Public Service Corp. of New Jersey does not excite as much popular interest as the report of (say) Jordan Motors. When a good Jordan report comes out, everyone gets a mental picture of many a Jordan hastening along the nation's highways, but Public Service Corp. probably suggests only a picture of vague turbines and shadowy...
...year may warm his piety at the comforting thought that he was twice as generous as the average churchgoer. Authority for the fact that 5? is the average contribution, is the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, which published figures last week. The most generous State: New Jersey, 12.2? per churchgoer per Sunday. Virginia, the Carolinas, Washington and eleven other States averaged less than...
...moment his company is at work on a $41,000,000 railroad through the Andes mountains for the Bolivian Government. He also has signed an agreement to make the largest airport in the world on the Jersey meadows opposite New York. He has always been interested in sports but was drawn into the fight game by Rickard, who picked him as the man to build the new Madison Square Garden when the old one had to be abandoned. He is a millionaire. If he can promote fights the way the late Rickard could, he will be a millionaire again...
...Harrisburg to Pittsburgh. Not only did he see the road pass through the greater part of the expansion which has made it a 12,000-mile system, but it was directly through his efforts that the Pennsylvania secured access to Manhattan. He planned a bridge across the Hudson from Jersey City to Manhattan. When other roads refused to cooperate, he went under instead of over the water and built the Hudson River tubes. Later he made an arrangement with the New York, New Haven & Hartford and built the Hell Gate Bridge, and still later got control of the Long Island...