Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jersey's most eligible bachelor, Democratic Governor Robert Meyner, 46, was vacationing in Delray Beach, Fla. as a house guest of retired Major General Edward C. Rose, former head of New Jersey's department of defense. No nightclubber, Meyner preferred fresh air and sunshine, avoided the wiles of scheming husband-huntresses by bypassing their lairs, spent much time on tennis courts with a purposeful eye on the ball...
...Peter's College of Jersey City, N.J. took first debate honors in the forensic tournament held here this weekend. M.I.T. finished second...
SOCONY-VACUUM OIL CO. will follow Esso Standard Oil Co. (formerly Standard Oil of New Jersey) in changing its name to reflect the trademark on its products. The company will change to Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc., to tie in with its Mobilgas, Mobiloil, Mobilheat products...
...under construction, and another 6,232 either ready for construction or proposed. Until now, all have been built by states or municipalities. Of the $2.4 billion of highway bonds floated last year, $2.2 billion were for toll roads. Some have been phenomenally successful. For example, the 118-mile New Jersey Turnpike, opened in 1951, took in $20,756,344 last year, more than double the engineers' estimate of $9,500,000. On the other hand. West Virginia's turnpike traffic is running below estimates, and its bonds are below par. Actually, the toll road is only suitable through...
...than $28 million and sales of $100 million annually. New company, called Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co., will be formed by an exchange of one share of Warner-Hudnut common stock for each share (774,621 outstanding) of Lambert common. Warner-Hudnut's president, Alfred E. Driscoll, former New Jersey governor, will be president of the new firm...