Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sons of the New Jersey farmers who drove out the fine Japanese "Thin Men" (TiME, April 24) will feel very proud of their righteous, fairminded, liberty-loving, patriotic parents when they hear of the latest blow struck in the interest of America and a better world. They will feel very proud that, while they are fighting the Germans to free the people of Europe, and the Japs to free the peoples of China and the Pacific, the home folks are doing their bit to make the U.S. untenable for any but true "full-blooded Americans": tall men with white skin...
Under the same reasoning as that used by the people of New Jersey, why don't we get rid of the English-Americans, now living in our country, in retaliation for the tyranny of their forefathers, kick out the German-Americans in answer to the atrocities committed by the Nazis, deport the Italian-Americans...
Last week the U.S. Army staked out a firm postwar claim in Canada's far northern Mackenzie River oilfields. The Army and Imperial Oil, Ltd. (a Standard Oil of New Jersey subsidiary), negotiated a new agreement giving the U.S. the right to 60,000,000 barrels of postwar...
Plan No. 2. Flying on surgical calls over Southern Rhodesia's 150.300 square miles of 4,000-ft.-high tableland, Sir Godfrey came to know more of his country than most Prime Ministers. Below him, on such trips, he saw a lush land which undulated like agricultural New Jersey, had the temperature of Southern California, produced grain, tobacco, oranges. It held gold, coal, chrome, asbestos. One-third of it was available to the right settlers...
Jumping frogs come from all over. Last week's Manhattan competitors came from frog farms in Vermont and New Jersey. The New Jersey contribution was by Warner Bros., whose interest in the affair was tainted with professionalism (see p. 56). The winners' jockeys, all boys, achieved their victories in various ways. Baby's jockey gave him a fight talk; Superman's said a last-minute prayer; the nameless leaper's rested on his luck. Flash, the world-champion jumper (15 ft. 10 in. in 1941), gave a demonstration, but the best that...