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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Praised from all sides by his banqueting flock: roly-poly old (seventyish) Father Divine, who celebrated his year-old marriage to blonde Edna Rose Ritchings, 22, with a medium-staggering dinner in Pine Brook, NJ. Over the happy couple gleamed a purple neon sign: "God's Holy Communion Table of Palace Mission." The bride wore a white gown and gold slippers. Fifty girls in uniforms marked with Vs (for Virtue, Victory and Virginity) choired the host's praises. The guests sat down in early afternoon to a menu featuring 60 kinds of meat, 54 vegetables, 23 salads, eleven...
Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) had "no cartel agreements with Farben." So said Robert T. Haslam, vice president, this week. He said that Standard had had "an agreement to purchase a large number of Farben's American patents for $35,000,000, plus turning over to them some of our patents. Those patents we purchased gave the U.S. synthetic toluol for TNT . . . 100 octane gasoline . . . buna rubber." The Dow Chemical Co.'s Willard H. Dow denied the cartel charge saying: "Those things have been very much distorted...
Under draft age in World War I, Young got a job cutting smokeless powder at the Du Pont war plant at Carneys Point, NJ. at 28? an hour, ended up in the Du Pont treasurer's office in Wilmington. In 1920, having inherited $15,000 from his maternal grandfather, he moved to New York and went broke playing the market. He went to work for General Motors and was earning $35,000 a year as assistant treasurer when he left, in 1929, to become financial adviser to the late John J. Raskob, then top financial man at Du Pont...
West Englewood, NJ...
Right around Home. The U.S. has its store of worms. In the highbrow town of Princeton, NJ. (where Dr. Stoll lives), 23% of the children were found, in 1943, to be infested with some kind of worms. Commonest U.S. worm is the trichinella, which makes the U.S. its headquarters and infests 21 million people, one-sixth of the population, three times as many as in all the rest of the world. These worms cause trichinosis, with a long list of symptoms: spots on the skin, swellings, nausea, pains all over the body, wasting and general weakness...