Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...April 1, 1940 and May 1, 1942, Detroit population jumped 336,000 (21%); Washington, 231,000 (35%) ; Chicago, 149,000 (4%); Los Angeles, 131,000 (9%); St. Louis, 97,000 (12%); San Diego, 97,000 (47%). And while all this was going on, New York City and northeastern New Jersey lost...
...Ureli Corelli Hill bankrupted himself in the California gold rush, returned to borrow the Philharmonic's sinking fund, in the process nearly sank the orchestra. At 70 he retired from music to take a flyer as a bit-part actor in legitimate drama. A disastrous venture in New Jersey real estate catapulted him back into Manhattan concert managing. In 1875 Ureli Corelli Hill took an overdose of morphine. Beside his body, police discovered a note. "Ha, ha!" it read, "I go, the sooner the better...
...year since Pearl Harbor. Besides the North Carolina and the Washington, commissioned in 1941, probably four new battleships, the South Dakota, Indiana, Massachusetts and Alabama, have joined the fleet by this time. The "biggest-ever" (45,000 tons), 30-knot Iowa was launched, in August, her sister ship New Jersey this week. These big, new, cruiser-fast battleships differ from the old Pearl Harbor ships as a Flying Fortress differs from a B18. Other signs of naval recovery...
When the Fund's work began, there were only 29 Negro public health nurses in the South. Now there are 341. The Fund has helped place Negro physicians as health officers in the health departments of North Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Illinois, Alabama, New Jersey, in six city health departments, in the federal Children's Bureau and the U.S. Public Health Service...
...second election in five weeks, the Crimson Network last night chose Daniel A. Shepard '43, of West New York, New Jersey and Kirkland House as President, succeeding Richard P. Kleeman '44, who will leave College after Christmas to join the Army...