Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strikers were about 12,000 A.F.L. truck drivers who work for general hauling contractors. Out in sympathy were some 15,000 drivers in nearby New Jersey cities. The issue: a demand for a 30% pay increase (present scale...
...latest to try to take his measure is young (24), New Jersey-born, Columbia-trained Rudolph von Abele. The result is not notably successful as a portrait (Stephens has chestnut hair on one page, black hair on another), but it is a generally scholarly study, based on primary sources, of an extraordinary political career. Not the least extraordinary fact in Stephens' life is that, having accepted the post of Confederate Vice President, he gave only lukewarm support to the Government. When his own ideas of states' rights and constitutional liberty were infringed by the Confederate Congress, he sulked...
...began in 1863 when the first John Batterson Stetson, the sickly son of a New Jersey hatter, joined an expedition to Pike's Peak for his health. On the trip he startled his companions by scraping fur off raw hides, chewing it up, spitting the juice through his teeth to produce crude felt. The broad-brimmed beaver hat that he made with the felt was the butt of all the camp's jokes. But on the way back Stetson sold it to a St. Louis bullwhacker for $5 in gold, thereupon decided to go into business...
Rich Mixture. In Jersey City, Mrs. Mary Pearman, unable to sleep, mixed herself a drink of wine, aspirin, liniment, mentholated salve and Worcestershire sauce, slept it off in a hospital...
...holdouts: New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maine. Eight other states-Pennsylvania, Ohio, Mississippi, Iowa, Oklahoma, Nevada, Montana and California-do not give equivalency diplomas, but let students take equivalency tests for courses they have missed...