Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea was not new. Yardley of London, Inc. (now made in New Jersey), Roger & Gallet, and Guerlain, Inc. had, in a limited way, gone into the lotion-and-lavender field for men 30 years ago, had then been followed, timidly and on a small scale, by other talc and cosmetic makers. Altogether in 1939 they grossed only about $12,000,000 a year, small change compared to the half-billion-a-year business in women's cosmetics...
...Teachers' incomes increased 11% between 1940 and 1943, while industrial workers gained 56%. Said a New Jersey schoolmaam: "Teaching is the steadiest job in the world. It never gets you anywhere...
Soup to Nuts. In Jersey City, six Army veterans invited the entire staff of their draft board to dinner, served nothing but cold C and K rations...
...wanted ideas on the care & feeding of goats. We fixed him up on a Borden & Co. truck leaving for their goat farm in Jersey the next morning...
...rarefied air of high office in U.S. industry has often been considered too thin for women to stand. Last week, the staid old Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) broke this antifeminine taboo. Into two of its five executive posts of assistant secretary it raised two ex-stenographers: brown-eyed, brown-haired Miss Muriel E. Reynolds, 42, and small (5 ft. i in.) Mrs. Margery M. Porter, also 42, who wears her brown hair in a feather cut. They are the first women ever to become corporate officers in mighty Standard...