Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate Mr. Edge of New Jersey, ardent wet, asked leave to have the Empringham statement printed in the Record, and Senator Willis of Ohio, ardent dry, said he would not object if Wayne B. Wheeler's answer were also printed...
...treatment" for $100, $20 down. He operates the "House of Health," where in a demurely yet impressively equipped waiting room a buxom, black-eyed, black-haired demoiselle welcomes the "lobs." But they work for H. L. Giles and August E. Kroening, who syndicate their institutions with branches in Manhattan, Jersey City, Newark, N. J., Kansas City, Montreal and Detroit. They have been harried about the U.S. and Canada...
...carrying on oil exploration work in Alaska, Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Argentina. It was originally incorporated in 1879 under the name of the Pacific Coast Oil Co.; changed its name to that of the Standard Oil Co. in 1906. All its stock the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey owned until 1911, when the Government forced the disintegration of that corporation. Its directors last year were K. R. Kingsbury, R. J. Hanna, F. H. Hillman, H. M. Storey, R. C. Warner, A. B. Brooks, H. T. Harper, W. H. Berry, H. D. Collier and R. W. Hanna...
Some months ago, when five handlers of tetraethyl lead employed by the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, went raving mad and died in straitjackets (TIME, Nov. 10, 1924, SCIENCE), the health menace in manufacturing "ethyl gasoline" was recognized. The plant was shut down; the sale of the new gasoline was discontinued. Health authorities investigated also the dangers of handling the fuel and the dangers of encountering exhaust fumes from motors...
...Majesty's government and friends," was driven from his farm and became a refugee, protected with others of his kind by Clinton's army, until 1870, when he returned to France. After the war France sent him to America as consul to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut-a post creditably filled until 1790, when he returned to France on the eve. of its own Revolution, which claimed his remaining years...