Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspapers played it as the worst scandal since the "Black" Sox threw the 1919 World Series. Alvin Paris, the tinhorn gambler who tried to fix last fortnight's pro football championship game, was still in jail. Who was behind him? The papers hinted darkly of a big-time Jersey gambling ring, which was not above fixing prize fights and college basketball games...
...Lewis can strike, so can we!" shouted one of the kids. Soon there were 1,200 of them snake-dancing through four miles of Jersey City streets. They didn't like a change in their classroom hours. It took the mounted police, the pleadings of teachers, the threats of truant officers and two days to get all the strikers back...
...Judas Sheep. There had been little enough progress in the area where U.N. would build: between 42nd and 48th Streets, from First Avenue to the river (see map). In the old slaughterhouse area livestock is still floated in by barge from New Jersey, is still led to the killing sheds by a cynical Judas sheep. On a vacant lot near the Consolidated laundry, Italian workmen still bowl through the intricacies of bocce every day the weather permits. Sidewalks are littered with old refuse, crumbling walls chalked with ancient obscenities...
Last week the four companies decided to make the biggest deal in the history of the U.S. oil business. Jersey Standard and Socony will buy into Arabian-American-the reported asking price was $250,000,000 for a 40% interest-so that they can develop the concession fully and sell Arabian oil in Europe, biggest market in the world outside...
...past, Jersey Standard and Socony have supplied Europe's oil needs from South America and other foreign properties. But since the depletion of U.S. reserves in the war (the Western Hemisphere supplied 90% of the Allies' needs), the Government has looked sourly on heavy export of oil from the Americas. One other prod to the deal was given by Ibn Saud. As oil and pilgrimages to Mecca are his chief sources of income, he has long awaited increased exploitation of his lands to boost his royalties of 22? a bbl. Shrewd old Ibn Saud also knows that more...