Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic blockade of Israel has probably caused Israel more injury than Arab armies did in two wars. It has effectively deterred Israel's plans to set itself up as an industrial nucleus to serve Middle East markets. Such well-known U.S. firms as Philco Corp., Standard Oil (New Jersey), British-Shell and Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc. have removed themselves from the Arab League blacklist by deciding that doing business in Israel is uneconomic...
Alexander's "special kind of bank" has attracted the biggest lights of the financial firmament. More than half of the top 500 U.S. corporations-including such giants as General Electric, General Motors and Standard Oil (New Jersey)-bank with Morgan Guaranty. The U.S. Government leans on Morgan Guaranty as one of the principal dealers in government securities. The bank annually sends out more than 9,200,000 dividend checks worth $1 billion for corporations, takes care of investing $6.5 billion in trust funds. Morgan Guaranty runs pension funds for such big corporations as Johns-Manville, Kennecott Copper, Philip Morris...
...almost exactly as he grows up in a small North Carolina town (Ruark was born in Wilmington, N.C.) and gets his schooling at Chapel Hill, where he becomes involved with bootleggers (Ruark says he had "a connection with Texas Guinan's brother, who had a connection in New Jersey"). After that, the author departs from his own life story and builds Craig Price into a villain who marries for money, fires his secretary-mistress and his best friend in a deal with a racketeering unionist, and beggars countless widows and orphans in a stock fraud-all without altering...
...Lincoln Tunnel and onto the New Jersey Turnpike late one night last week rumbled two chartered buses. Aboard were 84 students from Trenton State College (for teachers) and two faculty members, returning to Trenton from Manhattan after seeing Archibald MacLeish's prizewinning play J.B. It was past midnight as the darkened buses cut off the turnpike at New Brunswick and headed south for Trenton. In the second bus, some of the 40 coeds aboard dozed; others chattered about the play, and a few were singing songs...
...linseed oil to New York and was hauling his tanker back to Philadelphia. Roscoe Poe's driving history was pock-marked with traffic violations and convictions: in the past five years, he had committed at least seven moving violations (speeding, passing red lights, etc.) in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. But there he was, still driving-and driving a truck with bad brakes...