Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coffee Hijack. A truck carrying 24,056 Ib. of A. & P. coffee from a New York warehouse to Philadelphia stores was hijacked and its contents stolen when its driver stopped at a Jersey City bean wagon for a cup of coffee...
Died. William Stamps Farish, 61, president of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; of a heart attack; in Millbrook, N.Y. He was a big, tough but easy-talking Mississippian who had meant to be a lawyer but joined the great oil rush to Texas in 1901, worked as a roustabout, saved his pennies, started buying and selling leases in the oilfields, and ultimately wound up as the biggest power in Standard...
Phillips Brooks House announced last night that George M. Burditt '44 of La Grange, Illinois, and Winthrop House has been elected president for the coming year, and that Richard N. Swift '44 of Bloomfield, New Jersey, and Adams House, will be vice-president...
...busier with critical war work than Bendix Aviation Corp., suppliers of nearly 150 high-precision parts for every big Army bomber. Last week Bendix officials faced an other big time-consuming job: to answer a civil suit filed by Thurman Arnold's Anti-Trust Division in the New Jersey courts, charging conspiracy to choke competition and peg prices in aircraft accessories...
...mechanism which it is hoped will push at least $4 billions worth of the new issues into private and corporate hands, with the commercial banks taking the rest. Even this will be far more than is good for them to take. Speaking before a bankers' convention in New Jersey, thoughtful Marcus Nadler, professor of finance at New York University, pointed out that if and when the banking system holds $100 billions of Government debt (June 30 they held $33 billions), it will be receiving roughly $2 billions in interest each year. Such a situation would be made to order...