Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small fry in California implored us to send him the governor to help give a "crucial" class report on New Jersey; another sought a jar of soil from the banks of the Delaware where Washington crossed. Our alltime favorite came from a little wiseacre in The Bronx...
...Dear Men: Send me samples of New Jersey's most famous products.-Love and Kisses, Mike. P.S. My father says mosquitoes are New Jersey's most famous product...
...Cunningham, 20, comes from The Bronx; Stan Groll, 19, is still searching about Chapel Hill for a corner delicatessen where he can buy a corned-beef sandwich like the ones he used to eat in Brooklyn; Pete Brennan, 20, hails from Brooklyn; and Tommy Kearns, 20, from New Jersey...
Shortage for Europe? At the Commission hearings, big exporters argued that shipments to oil-short Europe were already being restricted. Humble Oil, subsidiary of Jersey Standard and the biggest producer and oil-buyer in Texas, testified that it could supply only 165,500 bbls. of a 300,000 bbl. order from Esso Export. W.C. Connel of the B.P. (British Petroleum ) Trading Co. wired that British companies wanting to buy 3,000,000 bbls. on the Gulf Coast were forced to divert their tankers around Africa to the Persian Gulf because "there is no assured supply of crude...
...Jersey's Camp Kilmer, where a few hundred refugees still await help from eager welfare agencies, U.S. Army detachments prepared new shelter and service facilities for the big rush. In the hurly-burly of processing, the bureaucracy managed to remember that Dec. 6 was St. Nicholas Day. In many European countries, St. Nicholas leaves presents in the newly polished shoes of the good children, switches and pieces of coal for the naughty ones. For the 51 children still awaiting settlement at Kilmer, there were toys, dolls and candy. No such observance had been permitted Hungarian children since...