Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William G. Chapman spent 17 years in Italy and Belgium, now bosses New Jersey's National Bank of West New York...
...auditorium and studio building to house Manhattan's musicians, 2) an art center to take the place of the scores of art dealers' galleries now scattered along Manhattan's 57th Street and elsewhere, 3) a barrel-topped terminal for Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey, 4) a health and recreation building with courts, rinks and swimming pools, 5) a large hotel especially designed for conventions of out-of-town industrialists, 6) a fashion center for wholesaling, distribution and display of the garment industry, 7) many-storied underground garages, wide sidewalks, rooftop restaurants, glass-enclosed subway entrances...
...study, SEC admitted it could not discover who controlled the American I. G. Chemical Corp. originally sponsored by I. G. Farbenindustrie, but since 1939 called General Aniline & Film (textiles, dyes, Agfa Ansco camera equipment). SEC revealed that the original U.S. directors of the firm, including Standard Oil of New Jersey's Walter Teagle, had no idea who controlled it either. The trail ended in Switzerland, where a number of long-named banking firms were holders "of record," but not "beneficially," of over 75% of the company's voting stock, for principals whom they refused to name...
...night last week, sergeants' whistles shrilled in Fort Dix. By midnight, trucks and guns were rumbling past the flat Jersey fields; by noon the 44th Division (New York and New Jersey National Guard) was well south of Washington...
...exigencies of radio is a fantastic, Lardnerian character named Frank ("Red") Dolan, who was a Daily News ace in the Golden Age of Manhattan tabloids. Boston-born in 1898, he groomed himself for his career by heading to sea at 14, driving an army truck in New Jersey during World War I. After the war, he traveled to the Orient, worked on Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Shanghai Gazette, also served on the Far Eastern Review...