Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Campaigning for a seventh term as Jersey City's mayor, cherub-cheeked Frank Hague rallied patriots to assist him in beating off foreign invasion. Roared the mayor reassuringly: "I am able to safeguard the lives of women and children...
...remaining states, including Vermont and New Jersey, examine in October and November. It is a question whether the few men from these states would be included within the limits of deferment "for a short period of time...
Editorial Chairman; Richard N. Swift, of Farlow House and Bloomfield, New Jersey, Advisory Editor; Richard C. Sorlien, of Wigglesworth and Pelham Maner, New York...
...from Japan on a shipment of ornamental shrubs. It was discovered in the U.S. in 1916 near Riverton, N.J. Like concentric ripples in a pool, the beetles spread year by year to surrounding territory. Since quantities of U.S. nursery stock are grown in the most beetled area of New Jersey, the insects would soon have infested the whole U.S. but for a firm Federal quarantine. Each year on the eastern seaboard the beetles now devour millions of dollars' worth of foliage, fruits, flowers, vegetables. They spend over three-fourths of their year of life as grubs, damaging lawns, links...
...most intensive disease-spreading was under way last week in Maryland, where it is subsidized with State funds and helped by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This week a similar campaign begins in New Jersey, where the first few spores were sown in 1939. The method is to heavily infect two half-acre plots of turf (where grubs thrive best) in each square mile. Birds, breezes and flying beetles then complete spreading the disease. Purpose of spore-sowing is not, as in spraying, to kill beetles on a specific plot but to establish the beetle enemy widely. Spore powder...