Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abdication was tastefully austere. Frank Hague, for 30 years Mayor of Jersey City and brass-knuckled overlord of Hudson County politics, simply summoned newsmen to City Hall and announced: "I am retiring...
...Approved a rent-control amendment sponsored by New Jersey's Albert Hawkes (and backed by the real-estate lobby) to allow landlords and tenants "voluntarily and in good faith" to agree on a lease calling for 15% rent increase, provided it extended to or beyond Dec. 31, 1948. Democrats objected bitterly that tenants would have to sign or face even higher demands and possible eviction early next year when all controls are scheduled to expire...
Thiouracil is a synthetic drug which slows metabolism, the rate at which the body burns its fuel-food. Recently Dr. George Van Der Noot and others of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station mixed 0.25% of this biological fire extinguisher in the feed of gilts and barrows (young female and castrated male hogs). The results were cheering to farmers. The slowed-down hogs invested their food in fat instead of burning it up in rooting. For each 100 Ibs. of weight gained, they ate 27.5% less feed than hogs that were deprived of thiouracil...
...them from the Boston Public Latin School--and six to private school graduates. New York follows with 24 recipients--16 of them from New York City--while Ohio ranks third with 11, Michigan fourth with 4, and Wisconsin fifth with 3. One apiece go to Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, and the District of Columbia...
...trying to get out from behind the eight-ball,* B-B-C has made a big decision : to give up on the present generation of pool players. What could be done about such customers as the New Jersey pool-hall proprietor who promotes lunchtime crap shooting on one of BBC's finest billiard table models, makes $80 a day as his cut before the day's regular billiard business begins? B-B-C is concentrating its crusading efforts on 300,000 Boys' Club members and sending experts like Mosconi, Crane and trick-shot specialist Charlie Peterson...