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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Needed to win: 266.) A further Gallup breakdown showed: 157 "safe" for Roosevelt, 129 leaning toward Roosevelt; 141 "safe" for Dewey, 104 leaning toward Dewey. Five big states were in the doubtful column: Pennsylvania (35), California (25) and Massachusetts (16) credited to Roosevelt; and New York (47) and New Jersey (16) credited to Dewey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Roosevelt 286, Dewey 245? | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

That covers the diamond so far except that the Jersey SO's dropped out of the league with the final full test and Jim Kirkpatrick had a date with Vince Di Maggie's sister over the weekend...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/22/1944 | See Source »

Flowing Gold. Standard Oil of New Jersey turned in a whopping $71,000,000 of estimated profit at midyear compared to $48,000,000 for the same period of 1943. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. netted $20,000,000 v. $15,000,000, Sun Oil Co. pocketed $7,800,000 v. $5,700,000. Eyeing this flowing gold, many a Wall Streeter boldly predicted that the industry may boost its year's earnings 40% over 1943. Cracked one oilman: "We're almost ashamed the way the money rolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Up, But | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...Philadelphia, there was just a string of taxicabs, at Jersey City, just the ferry to Manhattan. The marines silently looked at the New York skyline. Lieut. Camille Tamucci, the tough guy in charge, who had been dreaming of mounds of spaghetti, began brooding about his stomach. "It's all tied in knots," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Way Home | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

Even his best friends disagreed about the Town Crier's real nature. Acid Poetess Dorothy Parker believed he had "done more kindness than anyone I have ever known." Novelist Edna Ferber called him a "New Jersey Nero who mistook his pinafore for a toga." Sometimes his most devoted admirers found his cantankerousness hard to bear. "I find you are beginning to disgust me, puss," he once snarled at a guest. "How about getting the hell out of here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pumblechook | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

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