Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When this period of training has been completed, Reservists will go to the Signal Corps Officer Candidate School at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Following graduation from this four months' course, they will be commissioned as second lieutenants and assigned to duty...
...maze of steel rails that stretches for miles along the New Jersey shore across from Manhattan, 8,000 loaded boxcars stood idle last week, waiting for their war freight to be moved to ships. The blight of manpower shortage had moved from New Jersey's tomato canning (TIME, Aug. 30) to an even more critical field...
...days of such newspaper appeals brought impressive results: 2,000 volunteers in 48 hours, including 100 Princeton University students, scores of husky lads from the athletic leagues sponsored by New Jersey police departments, three sailors on shore leave. Perhaps Major Lepper had found the magic formula for recruiting workers. Said the New York Sun: "There's something about a request for male brawn that can't be swept aside. It's like trying to walk by those muscle-testing machines at the fair...
This summer 15,000,000 families in Russia have had their first taste of Idaho peas, New Jersey tomatoes, Oregon onions, Michigan beets. Planted on 500,000 acres of Russian soil, the seed was the gift of U.S. farmers and seedgrowers through the Russian War Relief, Inc. For some of this seed this will be a native's return, for the Red Turkey wheat and Kherson oats were first brought to the Middle West by immigrants from the Ukraine...
...Captain Glenn Miller, late recruit from the swank hotel ballrooms and broadcasting studios. Embarking on an earnest crusade to put swing on the U.S. parade ground, Captain Miller first taught his boys to swing the military classics. Then he militarized a few items like St. Louis Blues and the Jersey Bounce. Finally he got the urge to touch up some of the late great John Philip Sousa's scores with hot licks and modern dance-hall harmonies...