Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serious second thoughts. Geologists say that Norman Wells may some day produce from 50 to 100 million barrels. In this field, which the U.S. taxpayer has developed, he has no postwar rights. These revert to Canada and Imperial Oil Ltd., a Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey subsidiary. The truth is that Canol is unlikely to pay any but military dividends...
...Boom-conscious Florida has been searching for oil since 1901, and its Legislature has a standing offer of a $50,000 prize for the first commercial well. No one has collected yet, but Jersey Standard's big Texas subsidiary, Humble Oil, has struck oil at 11,626 ft. at an Atlantic Coast Line R.R. tank stop 28 miles north of Everglades City, and is hopefully drilling two more tests. Florida's county weeklies are having a field day announcing new leases, with the price for once near-worthless land up 150% from a year...
...auction, in December 1922, of 1,574 Jersey shipyard homes owned by the U.S. Shipping Board-a record 12-hour session when Day stopped the clock for two hours to avoid selling on a Sunday...
...development of the Jersey Meadows, across the Hudson from Manhattan, from no-account marshlands into a prime industrial area (including big plants owned by Ford, U.S. Steel, and Western Electric...
Married. Camilla Sewall Edge, 21, brunette daughter of New Jersey's Governor Walter Evans Edge, cousin of Maine's Governor Sumner Sewall; and Army Lieut. Edward Brooke Lee Jr., 26, Princeton ('40), of Silver Spring, Md.; in Trenton...