Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began to back away-"I was reading part of that bill this morning and there were certain phrases I didn't completely understand"-and set up a man-to-man meeting with Dick Russell in the White House. Such Northern Republicans as Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall and New Jersey's Alexander Smith, such Western liberal Democrats as Montana's Mike Mansfield and New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson allowed that they had no notions of coercing the South. Such powerful Northern newspapers as the New York Times, Washington Post and Times Herald and the Washington Star...
...made himself a millionaire in a remarkably successful business career (Darling Stores Corp., a women's wear chain with 140 stores in 27 states). He was also a successful Kentucky horse breeder (in 1955 his Prince John won a record-breaking purse of $157,918.50 at New Jersey's Garden State Park). Semiretired, at 57, he decided this year that he would like to serve in a Government post. "I just wanted to do some good," he explained last week. "I didn't ask to be an ambassador." Straightforwardly, Gluck wrote four Republican Senators: New York...
...Rejected the pleas of the governors of drought-hit Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts that their states be designated "disaster areas" requiring emergency federal aid, thus offered little hope to New Jersey and Maryland farmers who are also suffering a crop-searing dry spell. The New England drought situation, said the White House, is "distressing," but "considerable" relief is available under regular agricultural programs...
After five years of waiting, the U.S. oil industry finally got a lower court verdict on suits brought against three of its big gest companies by the Government. The defendants: Jersey Standard, Socony-Mobil, Caltex (owned jointly by the Texas Co. and Standard of California) and six subsidiaries. The charge: price-gouging to the tune of $111.5 million on Middle East oil supplied to Europe under Marshall Plan financing. Between 1949 and 1952, the Government charged, the companies sold oil to the Economic Cooperation Administration...
...period ECA continued to finance at such prices, which perhaps more than anything else indicates ECA's acknowledgment that the prices charged were in fact the lowest competitive market prices." The Justice Department would not say whether it will appeal the case, or even whether it will bring Jersey Standard and Socony to trial. But it may well be that Judge Murphy's strong opinion knocked the bottom out of the barrel...