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Word: newark (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Firewater. In Newark, Roger Maturin, 28, told firemen and police why he had turned in 28 false alarms over two weekends: "All I need is two beers, maybe three, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 10, 1954 | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

Mobster Albert Anastasia, 51, onetime lord high executioner of Murder, Inc., was stripped of his U.S. citizenship (and was thus set up for deportation to Italy) by a Newark federal judge on a relatively petty count. The court's finding: in applying for legal U.S. residence and citizenship, Anastasia twice neglected to report four arrests (three for murder, one for felonious assault), plus a 1923 conviction for gun-toting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 26, 1954 | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

Merrill Lynch hopes to use its freewheeling brokers to sell securities to suburbanites. Based in Chicago, Boston and Newark, the buses will tour five suburban areas around each city, hang out the Merrill Lynch shingle before supermarkets, factories and commuter stations. Sales men will hand out literature, lecture on the market, show new investors that they can buy stocks as easily as steaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Brokers on Wheels | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...will cut excise taxes a billion dollars, and that the Administration will accept the cut, despite its official disapproval. Also, there is a powerful move afoot to increase personal exemptions. All year long Internal Revenue offices receive jubilant announcements of births, some printed on mock income-tax forms. In Newark, N.J. last week, an attractive mother of four finished checking the family tax form with a revenue agent, then asked and was told how much less she would have to pay if she had one more dependent. Mused mother: "I was just wondering whether it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Woe Throughout the Nomes | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

Hunting Season. In Newark, the News carried this ad: A GROUP or CITIZENS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 22, 1954 | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

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