Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EARLIER that day, about 100 people had been standing in the cold wind at the airport in Trenton, New Jersey. Wallace was nearly two hours late, and the people waiting for him clutched their signs and their flags and tried to keep warm under the heavy grey sky. A few high school kids waited at the front of the crowd. They said that the Negroes got off from school yesterday to go hear Dick Gregory, and so it was alright for them to take today off to see Wallace. Their high school was 55 per cent Negro, they said...
NIXON LEADING: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Total electoral votes: 320 (needed for victory...
...with foreign competition, and also simplified many of the company's procedures. So successful were his programs that he was jumped over five senior vice presidents to the top of the firm that today is the fourth largest in the U.S. (after General Motors, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Ford Motor...
Political Points. By playing on jingoism, the junta also seemed to be playing with the country's present economic wellbeing. The expropriation threatened to frighten off foreign investors. The U.S. could always cut off economic aid if the Jersey Standard subsidiary does not receive satisfactory compensation. Washington is also in a position to suspend purchases of Peruvian sugar, some $40 million a year...
...Jersey Standard routinely labeled the seizure "a clear violation of international law" and asked the State Department to refrain from stepping in actively. One reason for the company's restraint was that Peru accounts for less than 1% of its total crude-oil production. The company also figures that Peru, which has to import oil to meet its needs, can ill afford to tamper with domestic oil sources. For the moment, Peru's militarists were in no mood to yield. But there is at least a chance that the junta, having scored a few political points, may eventually...