Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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J.A.s dug up war work. In Chicago last week the Midget Manufacturing Co. was hacking away at an Army contract for 150,000 pants hangers. In Cleveland four J.A. companies are turning out 10,000 foundry wedges for aircraft parts every week; in New Jersey a J.A. pool (which includes the Intricate Trinkets Co.) is making shipping blocks to protect aircraft pumps in transit. And in Pittsburgh the Sesame Specialty Co. (all girls) is looking for foreign business: they have an incendiary bomb blanket already approved by the U.S. Bureau of Mines...
...Statistical School is Sergeant David Probinsky, of the AAFTTC at Amherst Sergeant Probinsky instructed in and machine gun marksmanship at City, New Jersey last summer; was working on the establishment of a at Amherst recently and hopes to to that post ere long to continue project...
...Mexico, Arizona, Georgia and Mississippi are the most lightning-liked states, with an annual fatality rate of ten in a million population. Pacific Coast states and the Middle Atlantic seaboard states are the safest: (less than two per million in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and southern New England...
...Peace. For such reasons Wall Streeters have touted I.T. & T. as a peace stock. But Sosthenes Behn, I.T. & T.'s almost legendary president, has good reason to regard it as a war baby too, since his two-year-old plant in New Jersey is 95% engaged on Government contracts. Urbane, hawk-nosed, 61-year-old Sosthenes, who got his name from the Greek word meaning "life strength," was born in the Virgin Islands, of French and Danish parents. Schooled in Corsica and Paris, at 19 he was an up-&-coming banker in Manhattan, grew a luxuriant beard to disguise...
...awards given by the Sons of the American Revolution for Mil Sci 2 and Mil Sci 1 were presented to Querdon H. Nelson '45 of Lowell House and New Brunswick, New Jersey and William W. Dunn '46 of Winthrop House and New York respectively...