Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Short of cash but obviously enjoying his work, Harrison often modeled for pictures himself, posing as everything from a white slaver (with pith helmet) to an irate husband spanking his wife. On one project for one of his magazines, Harrison was picked up by New Jersey police (and released) for taking pornographic pictures: he had driven a carload of models to a Jersey golf course and had started taking pictures of them cavorting across the fairways half-nude...
Some of Manhattan's department stores and some of suburban New Jersey's dress shops were getting used to a new kind of invasion last week. Potential customers enter, inspect the dresses and select the models worthy to bear a tag proclaiming them fit for a Roman Catholic girl...
...Maritime Union won a contract for supplementary unemployment payments from Atlantic and Gulf Coast ship operators. Shippers will contribute 25? daily for each man working, build a fund to make up the difference for 26 weeks between state unemployment compensation ($36 a week in New York, $30 in New Jersey) and $40 weekly when maritime workers are laid...
...into effect. The state senate of Ohio (where 10% of Ford employees live) refused to go along with a G.A.W. plan last week, does not meet again until 1957. California has also ruled against G.A.W., and a political fight is shaping up in Illinois over the issue. But New Jersey permits the tie-in payments, and last week New York's Governor W. Averell Harriman gave them his approval...
...attack. Standard Oil (NewJersey) set up an alternate office 60 to 75 miles outside New York City to feed, sleep and serve as GHQ for 100 top executives. Curtiss-Wright bought 84 square miles in north central Pennsylvania to assemble jet engines and 5,000 acres in New Jersey's Ramapo Hills for a bombproof headquarters. The petroleum industry has set up five regional committees to run the natural gas and oil industry in each area, and A.T.& T. arranged alternate toll-call routes and emergency generators. One company has even stocked its secret rendezvous with disaster pay checks...