Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bald pate glistening in the hot glare of the klieg lights, New Jersey's ruddy Representative J. (for John) Parnell Thomas squinted through the clutter of newsreel cameras and microphones. Beyond the press tables, 391 spectators filled the big, gloomy caucus room to capacity. Outside, hundreds more strained against a cordon of Capitol Hill policemen...
...winds sprang up along the tindery countryside, every chimney spark, every pile of smoldering leaves, every discarded cigarette seemed to explode into a forest fire. The New England coast was masked by towering plumes of yellow-white smoke. So were great areas of New York and New Jersey...
Maine endured other grievous losses. By week's end eight towns had been destroyed, 1,056 houses burned, 100,000 acres of woodland gutted, 13 people killed and 2,500 made homeless. Maine's fires-and hundreds of others scattered through New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York-still blazed and smoldered...
Like the eight distinguished editors before him, New Jersey-born, Harvard-educated Ted Weeks is careful to nurture the Atlantic's New England roots, but just as careful not to trip on them. He does not forget that the Atlantic has a bigger circulation in California than in Massachusetts. In the Atlantic's ivy-covered Back Bay brownstone home on Arlington Street, opposite the Public Garden, Weeks labors at a furious pace. He does much of his work in a Windsor chair with his lap full of manuscripts, shortens interviews by seating visitors in an uncomfortable straight-backed...
Last week it looked as if New York-bound air travelers might get some relief from long waits, and the threat of stackup collisions which airmen have long feared. New York City and the state of New Jersey got together on the most ambitious airport development ever attempted -a tri-port system that might well set the pattern for safer air operations in all crowded centers. The new airport plan would be run by the Port of New York Authority, a unique bi-state agency which has proved itself one of the most efficient governmental bodies...