Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curtain Up. The hurricane sawed its way up the eastern shore of Maryland, the coasts of Delaware and New Jersey with ponderous leisure, its center still offshore. Mile by mile, rain fell, the skies darkened; the wind stirred, then blew, then howled, and the downpour multiplied. Mile by mile along the coasts the great pressure of air pushed the tide into towns, sent great seas tumbling and smashing upon the land. Then the lights went out and telephone lines went down; the chattering radios were stilled, and the candles were lit. At Atlantic City the wind ripped up the famed...
Corn Cobbers. In Manhattan, two Australian flyers, tired of waiting for travel orders home, applied for New Jersey farm jobs...
...Christian Beacon, funda mentalist weekly, a hue & cry arose, startled the Navy Department into reviewing the Gatlin case. Chaplain Gatlin was invited back, put under the district chaplain of the Third Naval District (New York, Connecticut, part of New Jersey), who told him to "follow the leadership of the Lord" in his duties...
...Trenton last week, 79 New Jersey convicts received beribboned service certificates from the U.S. Army. Their service : letting themselves be inoculated with dengue and sand-fly fever so that Army doctors could try to find preventives and treatments for these diseases, which have already been a problem in Hawaii, North Africa, Sicily and Italy, and will be more of one when large numbers of U.S. troops are involved in the Pacific and China-Burma-India theaters...
Doris Duke Cromwell, tobacco heiress, whose recent Reno divorce from James H. R. Cromwell was more recently invalidated in New Jersey, continued her legal struggle to divorce her husband. Her attorney's latest claims: 1) Cromwell had written his memoirs, threatened a series of intimate lectures, 2) Cromwell thought $1,000,000 might be an adequate settlement of the pending litigation...