Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...person and by proxy the stockholders of an unusual U. S. investment trust assembled last week in Jersey City, there solemnly voted their corporation out of business. The trust was no down-at-the-heel affair with a sorry or unsavory history. It was Mayflower Association, Inc. with assets of some $19000,000 and one of the best records in the field. Its stock was launched on the full crest of the 1929 boom at $60 per share. Its liquidating value today is more than $77, after past distributions of some $27 in cash and stock...
...three: Chairman Samuel P. Wetherill, president of Philadelphia's Wetherill Engineering Co.; Col. Robert G. Elbert, Wartime Flyer Gill Robb Wilson, director of Aeronautics in New Jersey, president of the National Association of State Aviation Officials. Besides Commander Rosendahl, they were advised by Commander Garland Fulton, lighter-than-air expert, and by President Paul W. Litchfield of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., which presumably will build any future U. S. airships...
...issue TIME errs in reporting Governor Merriam used a dirty acetylene torch to cut the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge chain. A brand new Airco-D B emergency cutting outfit was shipped via express from our Jersey City factory for use at this history-making event...
...native jungle, dropped into the Standard Oil Building. Legend is that he got no farther than the gate: suspicious of his torrent of Spanish, the bomb-conscious guards summarily ejected him through the door. Thereafter the proud Colombian refused to have any dealing with Standard Oil of New Jersey. His concession was snapped up by Promoter Carl Kendriok MacFadden for his Carib Syndicate, Ltd., which kept a minority interest, sold the rest to Henry Latham Doherty's Cities Service...
Richard G. Powell '38, of Englewood, New Jersey, was elected captain of the Varsity soccer team for 1937 at a meeting held yesterday afternoon in the Dillon Field House...