Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baltimore & Ohio R. R. last week announced that it would soon apply to the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to absorb the Reading R. R. and the Reading's subsidiary, Central R. R. of New Jersey. Such a merger would unite three roads with combined assets of about $1,712,826,542 and total trackage of 10,601 miles. The Jersey Central runs from Jersey City west to Scranton, Pa., and south to resort towns on the New Jersey coast. The Reading goes from Boundbrook, N. J., to Philadelphia, Reading, Harrisburg and Bethlehem, Pa., also Lancaster, Pa. and Wilmington...
Edmund Austin Mays Jr. '32, of Montclair, New Jersey...
...boost given the Navy's cruiser program now before Congress (see p. 10). Less obvious, equally welcome, was the boost given to the proposed second interoceanic canal through Nicaragua by a sea-level route requiring few if any locks. As the war-game neared its final phase, New Jersey's Senator Edge went on the air to urge passage of his bill to appropriate $150,000 for a Nicaraguan survey. Said he: "In the event of war, two canals would be of inestimable value...
...person in the entire organization. The present prosperity of this company has not just happened; it is the result of earnest, loyal work and toil from the board of directors to office boys." Increasingly, during the last two years, have Standard Oil of Indiana and Standard Oil of New Jersey become competitors, invaded each other's territory both in the U. S. and abroad. The New Jersey company is a Rockefeller stronghold. Hence, the result of the Rockefeller-Stewart fight in the Indiana Company may be of far more than man-to-man significance...
...Hoover conferred with Washington's "Dry" Senator Jones, New Jersey's "Wet" Senator Edge. He induced them to withdraw their joint resolution, pending in Congress, calling for an investigation of prohibition enforcement. In place of Congressional action, Mr. Hoover intends to appoint, shortly after he enters office, a sage, non-partisan committee of perhaps nine or eleven persons to conduct a thorough enforcement inquiry report to Mr. Hoover...