Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the New York Sun stumbled across something. In three-bank headlines, it announced that "unknown agents" had stolen atom-bomb secrets from the Oak Ridge plant. The quick-to-panic became panicky. Cried New Jersey's J. Parnell Thomas: "We must take drastic steps." In the Senate, Iowa's Bourke B. Hickenlooper rose to say that, as chairman of AEC, he had "no reason to believe" that anything had been stolen from Oak Ridge. But, said he, there was something he should mention. He revealed the Los Alamos theft...
...five-room house." A Seattle coast guardsman took a picture of a "saucer" at dusk. The picture showed a pinpoint of light. A policeman saw a lone saucer skimming high over San Francisco Bay. From people in Colorado, New Mexico, Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and 29 other states and Canada, reports came...
...host who entered was not Hoover but Federal Trade Commissioner Lowell Mason; he had paid $84 out of his own pocket for the luncheon, including the roses, currently selling at the summer bargain price of 72? a dozen. With Mason were familiar capital figures: New Jersey's lumbering Senator Albert Hawkes, Presidential Economic Adviser Edwin Nourse, White House Aide Charles Murphy, New York's Congressman Frederic Coudert. There was one stranger, a fierce-eyed, one-armed man whom nobody knew...
...Ueno Zoo to kill their dangerous charges. Since then the crowds (70,000 daily*) that come to the zoo have had to content themselves with substitutes. They watch six monkeys and two house cats play in the huge polar bear caves, stare at the modest antics of a Jersey cow, now the sole occupant of the wild boar...
...buried on page 3 of the New York World-Telegram, but it was obviously the story of the week. The dispatch, datelined Montclair, N.J., reported that a 66-year-old New Jersey banker was abed with the mumps. He had, said the Telly, "contracted the mumps from his grandfather...