Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Author Edna Ferber, he was a "New Jersey Nero who mistook his pinafore for a toga." To Novelist Charles Brackett, he seemed "a competent old horror with a style that combined clear treacle and pure black bile." Critic Percy Hammond found him "a mountainous jelly of hips, jowls and torso [but with] brains sinewy and athletic." Caustic Wit Dorothy Parker thought that he did "more kindness" than anyone she had ever known...
...partly secret weapon of war looms ominous and ugly against a smoky New Jersey sky, its monstrous steel guts exposed in a 20-story skyscraper without walls. Its immediate purpose: to speed the production of 100-octane aviation gasoline. Its probable destiny: the overthrow of new oil-refining methods that are already growing old (see p. 87). Its proud master: Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey...
Sixteen companies are now producing 100-octane gasoline; Standard Oil of New Jersey alone is making over 60 times as much as it did two years ago. Said President Gallagher: "Iso-octane-the ingredient which makes this fuel so powerful-cost $30 a gallon when first used in the laboratories. By 1933 the price had dropped to $16. A year later 1,000 gallons were sold to the U.S. Army for $2 a gallon. Today it is between...
...Jersey .464 Arkansas...
...Nuland of Eliot House and Westgate, Maryland, Business Manager; Leonard M. Wright of Milton, Editorial Chairman; E. Thomas Binger of Adams House and St. Paul, Minnesota, Photographic Chairman; Colin F. N. Irving of Eliot House and Brookline, Executive Editor; Irwin M. Horowitz of Lowell House and Elizabeth, New Jersey, Sports Editor; Joseph H. Sharlitt of Adams House and Shaker Heights, Ohio, Assistant Editorial Chairman; Mitchell I. Goodman of Kirkland House and Brooklyn, Executive Associate; Melvin J. Kessel of Kirkland House and Cincinnati, Feature Editor; and Robert S. Landau of Eliot House and New York City, News Editor...