Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Former chief geologist of the European division of the New Jersey Standard Oil Company, Winthrop P. Haynes '10 has been appointed visiting lecturer in Geology for the next academic year, it was announced yesterday...
...Moscow had agreed on a trade in snakes; and a social tidbit for the gossip column: a cow of Victoria, Australia, whose husband had lived in Bucks County, Pa. since 1939, gave birth to a calf. It was all legitimate, however. The father, Imperial Regal Heritage of the Jersey Island Jerseys (he had left home on the last ship before the Nazis moved in), achieved his parenthood through artificial insemination over the longest distance yet recorded. Sealed in two thermos jugs and packed in ice, the Imperial Regal sperm (diluted to serve 100 cows) took the long way round...
Seldom in history had an invading force been better behaved or more peacefully inclined. The 10,000 U.S. Navymen who swarmed into London last week from the battleships Wisconsin and New Jersey, the carriers Kearsarge and Randolph, were in holiday mood. The 2,140 downy-cheeked midshipmen were agog with excitement over the sights they had seen on Uncle Sam's "Show the Flag" junket to northwestern Europe...
...power ($1,000 a week). For Hedda was there when the flickers were born. She knew Hollywood in 1915, when it was a village near Los Angeles. She knew Sam Goldwyn when his name was Goldfish, and played in several of his pictures in the Biograph studio on New Jersey's Palisades...
...Jersey's Teterboro Air Terminal, just six miles across the Hudson River from Grant's Tomb, there was a lot of hustle-bustle last week. Lanky young pilots, many in their old Army flying jackets, darted about the coveys of DC-3 freighters and the smaller Piper Cubs, Cessnas and Beechcrafts scattered around the field. Steamrollers were snorting away, lengthening the landing strips to 4,500 feet. In a corner of the field, handlers coaxed a horse into a freight plane. Regularly, every minute or so, a plane took off or landed...