Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson, playing considerably below par, outclassed the Tigers in Buffalo last month 6 to 3 Normally, it would have no trouble with the Nassau icemen, but this time the contingent of New Jersey based Canadians will have everything going for them...
Respect from His Targets. Ridgeway was not exaggerating, but he had little hope that his indignant article would have any effect. The U.S. Public Health Service, he pointed out, lacked the necessary muscle to enforce a cleanup; New York and New Jersey, he argued, would not want to risk scaring off industry by enforcing the necessary antipollution controls. What was needed, he said, was a new federal agency reporting directly to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
...constitute 50% of its loan portfolio. Another Hudgins complaint is that "the middle-class Negro, the doctor, dentist and lawyer, is not facing up to a fair share of responsibility in Harlem. When he gets to be affluent, he immediately moves away-to Westchester, Long Island or New Jersey. He makes charitable contributions in Harlem, but that's all. And it's not nearly enough...
Claims & Controls. The companies have always survived such pressures comfortably. Though the government already skims 67% off the oil income, the biggest producer, Jersey Standard's Creole subsidiary, in 1964 netted a phenomenal $228 million, and the second biggest, Royal/Dutch Shell's subsidiary, earned $105 million. The current demands, however, seem a bit stiff even for Creole and Shell. Early this month the government hit them with back-tax claims totaling $113 million for the years 1958 through 1960 on the questionable ground that they had then sold oil too cheaply-and thus had somehow done Venezuela...
...royalties to bankroll their grand industrial-development plans. Among other things, they seek a stronger voice in the companies' policies and the power to fix the world price of residual fuel oil, of which Venezuela is the prime supplier. By pressuring the subsidiaries of such U.S. giants as Jersey Standard, Gulf, Socony Mobil, Texaco and Atlantic Refining, they also hope to persuade the U.S. Government to increase the import quotas for Venezuelan crude oil, which brings a higher price than fuel...