Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northern New Jersey, OPA officials gave up trying to enforce the pleasure-driving ban; inspectors stopped snooping, stole away. Said one: "The maze of conflicting rulings from Washington and local ration boards has placed inspectors on the spot. I'm tired of being called a sneak and a Gestapo agent...
...produced no oil. OPAdministrator Prentiss Brown prematurely announced that the pleasure-driving ban on Eastern motorists would be lifted "as soon as possible." Harold Ickes countered that Big Inch was chiefly a military supply line, would "give no more gasoline for pleasure driving." Representative Fred A. Hartley of New Jersey, chairman of an unofficial Congressional committee to speed oil to the northeast, took his committee into the White House to demand relief for Eastern motorists. Afterwards he cracked: "What we want from Washington is less gas and more gasoline...
...Patton Jr.'s U.S. Seventh Army splashed up the beaches of Sicily, the innards of much of its motor equipment were protected from the sea with a thick, gummy substance that was the result of a near-miracle of production back home. Last week Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) proudly let the miracle...
Late one Friday, Army Ordnance telephoned Jersey Standard in Manhattan. Said Ordnance: General Dwight D. Eisenhower had just cabled, asking for immediate delivery of 45,000 lb. of a special water-repellent compound never before made in the U.S. Eisenhower had just heard of the new compound from the British, who had used it with great success. The goo was sketchily described. By Monday enough machinery had been thrown together to fill the order; materials had been rushed by police-escorted Army trucks to Standard's Baltimore grease plant...
...Jersey's Commissioner of Education Charles Herbert Elliott forbade Milltown to give denominational teaching in its only grammar school during school hours. His decision that such teaching would be unconstitutional was buttressed by one parent who wrote: "I don't want [my daughter] to go to school to be taught to be a Roman Catholic or Protestant, but I do expect her to receive character education every hour of every day she is in school...