Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jobs, refused a salary for heading a $13 million county sewer project. He made $300 a year as a city councilman, but when he worked up to mayor, his pay dropped down to $100. He has so few political connections that state G.O.P. leaders were plugging two other New Jersey Republicans (Singer Manufacturing Co.'s President Milton Lightner and Investment Banker David Von Alstyne Jr.) for the Air Force job when Quarles was appointed. Last year by way of vacation, he took only a long weekend on Fire Island, where he worked building a flight of steps...
...terror of New Jersey's Teterboro Airport, aeronaughty TV Impresario Arthur Godfrey, who was shorn of his private pilot's ticket for six months last year after he peevishly buzzed Teterboro's control tower, taxied his DC-3 at the scene of the crime, this time clipped a ground approach light with his wing. Unaware that he had dented the wing and ripped a deicer, he nonchalantly took off for Nova Scotia. The tower called Godfrey, broke the news that he had just had a slight accident. Surprised as he could be, Pilot Godfrey returned...
...announced that it has bought an assembly plant at New Brunswick, N.J., where Studebaker has turned out J47 turbojet engines. There, Volkswagen will assemble its rear-engine, four-cylinder cars for the U.S. market, where it already has 40% of all foreign-car sales (2,500 a month). In Jersey, Heinz Nordhoff is not likely to find many workers troubled by the emptiness and disconsolateness of a two-day weekend...
General Motors ran up a second-quarter profit of $351,555,080 v. $236,083,050 for the same period a year ago, and a half-year net of $661 million v. $425 million last year, despite a 25% decline in defense sales. Jersey Standard's peak $344 million for the half year topped 1954's six months' profit, $293 million...
Senators, led by New Jersey's Clifford Case (but not including Minority Leader William Knowland), issued a joint statement applauding the plan. From his Bethesda hospital bed Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson was quick to send a ringing endorsement. "The President's proposal," he said, "is the daring, imaginative stroke for which a war-weary world has been waiting. It will test the good faith of the Communists and separate the warmongers from the peacemakers. The American people yearn for peace-peace that will maintain their traditional freedoms . . . This proposal is our pledge of sincerity and good faith...