Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newark, a strike by the Retail Clerks International Protective Association, A.F. of L., resulted in the closing of 242 Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. stores throughout northern New Jersey and Staten Island...
...Jersey (pop. 4,160,165) with 519 cases and 43 deaths. To control the disease, Trenton and nearby towns have quarantined their children from school, church, swimming pools, movies. Paterson has been sprayed with DDT. The State Director of Health says carefully that New Jersey has no epidemic, but has proclaimed a "state of emergency" and asked the Red Cross for nurses, quick...
Scion of "a long line of New Jersey Methodists," J. Bates Upham had emerged from the Spanish-American war as the nation's most dexterous poker player. He had learned to dance like an angel while "working" the Cunarders on the Atlantic run, and had finally emerged from Sing Sing revered as a forger and a gentleman. "I seem naturally," he told Estelle, "to prefer enterprises where a little extra risk may bring a little extra reward." Then he slipped his arm hopefully around her slim waist...
Full-Time Job. Racing men tried to talk free-spending Willie Helis into buying a breeding farm in Kentucky or Virginia. Instead, he bought New Jersey's long-idle, 1,200-acre Rancocas Farm. Helis' present ambition: 15 stallions and 250 brood mares, 225 new foals at Rancocas each spring...
...Western Pacific, the small but spunky rival of the Southern Pacific (which owns the other half of D. & R. G. W.); Arthur Curtiss James's onetime road might possibly be had. In the East Young might take over the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western to get from Buffalo to Jersey City...