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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking the express highway familiar to thousands of motorists bound for South Jersey's shore resorts, the Valiant turned down U. S. Route No. 9, preceded by an automobile to clear traffic. The coach tooled along at a fine rate to the leafy little hamlet of Marlboro, site of the second change. At Freehold the party paused for luncheon, just two miles short of the best hamburg stand between Newark and Cape May. Tearing through Toms River, but not fast enough to become enmeshed in the speed traps just south of that place or embroiled with the neighborhood...
...chosen favorite poem year after year, when milk is named as the most popular beverage, when Petty is universally regarded as the favorite artist, we cannot but feel there are evil forces afoot in Nassau. Something, as "favorite-dramatist" Shakespeare once said, is rotten in the state of New Jersey. Certainly the football set-up is not to blame. Coach Crisler came into his share of the boodle and Captain Constable was rail-roaded into several offices with vote reminiscent of the Roosevelt landslide of '32, but we'll venture to lay odds that while the football...
Next morning everyone was up in time to watch the sunrise over Manhattan and the New Jersey meadows. Arrived at Lakehurst, the passengers found a rigid customs examination waiting them, finally flew off to Newark by American Airlines. Dr. Eckener went to work parrying questions from newshawks, preparing his ship for the return trip this week. In U. S. papers the happy, goateed old man received columns of tributes. In Germany a Nazi ban prevented his name from being mentioned...
Last week Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey filed a registration statement for an $85,000,000 issue of 25-year debentures with a 3% coupon-a record low for a long-term industrial bond. Biggest oil company in the U. S. with assets of $1,894,000,000, Standard Oil thus demonstrated that its credit is nearly as good as that of the U. S. Government. One sound reason for that credit rating was revealed at the time the registration was filed: Last year Standard Oil earned $62,800,000, a fat increase over the $45,600,000 reported...
...outstanding preferred stock of Standard Oil Export Corp., which was formed in 1928 under the Webb Act to handle the combined export business of Standard Oil and three subsidiaries. A non-profit organization, Export has only 100 shares of common stock, 40 owned by Standard Oil of New Jersey, 30 by Humble Oil & Refining, 25 by Standard of Louisiana, a New Jersey subsidiary, five by Carter Oil Co. Export's owners paid all expenses, guaranteed the big preferred stock issues. However, the new bonds are a direct obligation of parent Standard of New Jersey...