Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same week the Morro Castle burned off the Jersey shore, the S. E. P. was featuring a newspaper short story by Manuel Komroff, based on the Titanic disaster, called "Never Misspell a Name." In 1935, Test Pilot James ("Jimmy") Collins plunged to his death a few weeks after the Post ran his article "Return to Earth," a graphic piece of writing describing the plane-tester's feelings as he shot toward the ground at 400 m.p.h. Same year came the Post's most melodramatic news-coincidence, the article "Prelude to a Heterocrat-the Evolution of Huey Long." which...
...Before New Jersey Legislators last week was a bill to reduce the tax on distilled applejack. Reason: consumption of famed Jersey ''light-nins" has slipped...
Onetime (1925-29) U. S. Ambassador to Spain Ogden Haggerty Hammond, 67, vice president of the ist National Bank of Jersey City, was fined $1 for walking his wirehaired terrier in Manhattan's Central Park unleashed and unmuzzled...
After four days, practically all Hindenburg patients had been discharged or transferred from the small New Jersey hospitals. In Dr. Buermann's hospital remained only seven of the original 26. The emergency was over. From now on only the regular grist of motor accidents would come in. But next month Dr. Buermann will renew an old interest upon the arrival of John D. Rockefeller Sr. to whom he is June-to-September personal physician...
...Lehigh Valley Railroad, whose 1,300 mi. of track in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey run through some of the finest scenery and richest anthracite resources in the U. S., received 26% more from coal shipments last year than in 1935. Since the Lehigh is primarily a coal-carrier, this meant Recovery. With coal & steel booming on merrily, last week rugged Edward Eugene Loomis, president of the road for 20 years, retired to become board chairman. Elected to succeed him was Scottish-born Duncan John Kerr, a rail-road man since 1904, when he arrived...