Word: nj
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's great oil pools lies in the underwater tidelands of the Gulf of Mexico. To tap it, Humble Oil & Refining Co., a Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) subsidiary, went 7½ miles out to sea, built an island of steel and started drilling through the Gulf floor. Last week, Humble announced that it had brought in its first big tidelands well, a strike that produced 887 barrels of oil a day before it was choked back...
BERNARD S. WALLERSTEIN Newark, NJ...
Albert the Great (Charles Winninger) certainly will not admit it, even though his "temporary job between bookings" (his agent will wire him any day now) with an electrical appliance company in Camden, NJ. lasts for 20 years. He regards his children merely as part of the family juggling act, and drives them every afternoon to practice new song & dance numbers in the suburban garage. When they grow up and decide to live like other people he considers their rebellion against his incredibly singleminded dream (to see Albert the Great & Family in lights again), as subversive as a ripe tomato hurled...
Slicks. The best of them look as well on a library table as Town & Country. Except for its Chevrolet ads, General Motors' slick Friends (1,400,000 a month) could pass as a regular picture magazine. Restyled three years ago by the Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) as a luxury magazine, The Lamp, which goes to 255,000 readers, pays up to $2,500 for articles. Chrysler's Overseas Graphic is exported (in English and Spanish) to 20,500 foreigners...
...became one of the wealthiest women in the U.S. by marrying a grocery fortune (A. & P.'s Edward V. Hartford, who left her $200 million when he died in 1922) and then became a princess by marrying Prince Guido Pignatelli in 1937; after long illness; in Wyckoff, NJ...