Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...objects of the maneuvers were to provide training in: 1) mobilization, 2) the "logistics of a concentration," 3) field service. Of the five divisions present the 1st (Regular) is now in process of motorization. The other four-44th New Jersey & New York, 27th New York, 43rd and 26th New England-had to depend largely on trains, although as an experiment 400 taxicabs and private trucks were hired to convey troops to the camp from Buffalo and Manhattan at a cost of $95,000. All told, there were nearly 3,000 motorcabs engaged in the maneuvers as compared...
...executives who do not want the world to know what they are making. Not yet released from SEC's "confidential" files are the salaries of such tycoons as Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors, Gerard Swope of General Electric, Walter C. Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Myron C. Taylor of U. S. Steel...
Last week 25 Reynolds-system houses were being built in New York and New Jersey. Under the Reynolds system a prospective home builder outlines his ideas to an architect who sketches the plans. These are forwarded to Reynolds Corp. which draws up specifications for Reynolds fireproof framing, structural flooring, lathing, metal foil insulation, heating, airconditioning, plumbing-approximately 80%, of the mechanical and structural parts that go into a house. The rest -hardware, lighting fixtures, floor covering, wall covering, etc.-the builder buys for himself. All Reynolds equipment is sold through local dealers. The company claims that a Reynolds house, complete...
...sales at Saratoga. On the other hand, until Sun Beau passed her record in 1931, the biggest money-winning horse in history was Goldsmith Maid, a trotter who, in 123 races from 1865 to 1877, won $364,200. Foaled by a dam who pulled a cart for a New Jersey hat peddler, a farm horse until she was 6, Goldsmith Maid had raced only once at 8, made her best time (2:14) at 19, was still a champion at 20, died of pneumonia...
Such domestic affairs soon drove the Prince back to Brighton and his first wife, while the Princess and Lady Jersey were both neglected. His growing unpopularity, just as refugees of the French Revolution began flooding England with harrowing tales of violence, worried him constantly, and during his ten-year reign fears of assassination made him miserable. Only at Brighton could he find contentment. The great Pavilion he built there, with its full-blown domes, tall pagodas of porcelain, panels of lacquer, and strange Indo-Chinese style, was his unconscious assertion of his belief in the dignity of kings, of their...