Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...darkness fell one night last week, Jersey farmers came by the hundreds, crowded into the schoolhouse. They cheered a speaker who cried: "Run them back to Arizona." Shouts of disapproval rose as a woman struggled to say: "God does not say to dislike one race and love another." The mass meeting rumbled angrily on. An outbuilding on Kowalick's farm went up in flames...
Farmer Kowalick gave in. He decided to send the Japanese away. The Jersey farmers slapped his back, bought him drinks, presented him with a box of cigars...
...March graduates include: George C. Adams '44, of Charlotte, North Carolina and Lowell House; James E. Connor, Jr. '44, of New Haven, Connecticut and Lowell House; Peter Frank '44, of Cambridge; Henry R. Krakauer '44, of Paterson, New Jersey and Adams House; Kurt Lessen, of Cawnpore, India and Lowell House; Cornelius J. Peck '44, V-12, of Iron Mountain, Michigan; and Alan T. Wenzell '44, NROTC, of New York City...
...Jersey, Teresa Truax, 19 months, was gravely ill with leukemia. Her father, Sergeant Elmer Truax, was Somewhere in the South Pacific. Only the Commander in Chief of the South Pacific area could approve a furlough, and communications to him must be only on matters of military import. But Mrs. Truax kept trying. Last week she got a letter cold, with official language, warm with hope: The matter was receiving the "attention of the appropriate officials of the War Department." Teresa's mother beamed: "I guess we're getting some action...
...months the Carter Oil Co., subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, had been drilling for oil in the middle of Farmer R. F. Cottingham's corn and cotton fields in McClain County, Oklahoma. Now, as the drill bit touched 10,620 ft., the drillers had brought in the gun perforator to shoot 60 half-inch cartridges through the heavy steel casing. They were testing the famed Wilcox sand that, at a much shallower level (from 5,000-6,000 ft.), had turned the great Oklahoma City Field into a bonanza 15 years before...