Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Following Pearl Harbor, "greatest urgency" was for the new battleships of the Iowa and North Carolina classes. The 45,000-ton New Jersey was completed in 26% less time than the 35,000-ton Washington. After Coral Sea and Midway, emphasis shifted to carriers, then to landing craft and destroyer escorts...
...reshaping the foreign-policy plank, the Governors had the help of such able men as Vermont's greying Senator Warren Austin and New Jersey's snow-haired Representative Charles Eaton. They forced adoption of a plank far more specific than , any of them had, as individuals, hoped for. On the record, G.O.P. now favors...
Mosquitoes. A new mosquito repeller, more effective and four to six times as lasting as citronella, was announced by a group of chemists from hard-bitten New Jersey. A military secret known only as "Formula No. 612," it is an inexpensive, colorless liquid without unpleasant odor...
...Montgomery County, Alabama, the cotton bolls hung heavy on the plants. If they were not picked in a hurry, September rains would ruin the crop. In New Jersey an appeal for volunteers to unload freight had brought 2,000 volunteers in 48 hours (TIME, Sept. 6). Now the Alabama planters staged their own campaign, for a modest 400 men, women & children cotton pickers...
Thus chunky, shaggy-headed Harry Carothers Wiess, president of Humble Oil & Refining Co., nutshelled the current confusion over oil. Just as neatly, oil-wise Mr. Wiess, whose company (a Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey subsidiary) is one of the U.S.'s biggest oil producers, last week set forth figures to drive home to the layman a still-incredible fact : the pinch in oil may be just beginning...