Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other All-Army games will be played in Denver, Milwaukee, Detroit, Syracuse, Boston, Jersey City...
...TIME [July 13] in an article on scrap rubber collections, the statement was made: "States that should have given the most gave the least: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Alabama, the District of Columbia." The facts of the matter are that Alabama's collection during the June 15~July 10 drive totaled some 18,098,811 lb.-a per capita average of 6.39 lb. As in many other States, county salvage committee reports were slow in coming in, but the results were there. Your article, I believe, did an injustice to Alabama, however unintentional. In fairness, allow...
...guess. McKnight Kauffer's abstract Steel! Not Bread poster (see cut} would probably confuse even sophisticated observers. Illustrator Jean Carlu's mechanistic Give 'Em Both Barrels ( see cut} is modern chewing-gum art, minus the latter's peppermint flavor. Workers in five New Jersey plants on whom it was tested came up with the conclusion that Illustrator Carlu meant to depict the FBI's fight against crime. They mistook the riveter for a gangster...
...soaked with petroleum, Wrote Harvard's Professor Kirtley F Mather in Science: there is "no chance' that the U.S., which has produced two-thirds of the world's oil, has any monopoly of it. Wrote Wallace E. Pratt, a director of Standard Oil of New Jersey: finding oil requires a "delicate synchronization of science, machinery, and the human equation" that is peculiarly American. His new book, Oil in the Earth (University of Kansas Press; $1), is a yawp in praise of the U.S. "wildcatter...
...more steam behind its junk-your-jalopy campaign, in New York and New Jersey asked auto dealers and junkmen to turn in at least 420,000 old autos by year's end (normal: less than 100,000). Since each jalopy yields 1,500 lb. of steel scrap, 30 lb. of lead, 25 lb. of copper and 22 lb. of zinc, the junk-auto scheme could mean a fat addition to U.S. metal supplies...