Word: nj
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...compared to Standard Oil of NJ.'s 90%, TIME...
...Garwood, NJ. has tried the Mae Carden system. This ignores pictures, makes pupils use new words and sentences and then break the sentences down into their logical parts. "Garden children," says Mae Garden, "read sentences, not words." The system stresses "functional grammar" with some phonics. All this, according to Inventor Garden, works wonders...
With what was perhaps the best-spent $135 million in the history of business, the Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) in 1932 bought oil concessions under Lake Maracaibo to add to its Venezuelan affiliates. Now the Creole Petroleum Corp. (formed from those affiliates) is the biggest overseas investment in any single country by any U.S. company. It is also Jersey's best money earner, accounting for 48% of the parent company's dividend income in 1954. All by itself, Creole provides Venezuela with about 30% of government revenue. This week, in its fourth study entitled U.S. Business Performance Abroad...
...stumbled "by sheer happenstance" into an office-boy's job with Ferdinand Strauss, whose Zippo the Climbing Monkey and Alabama Coon Jigger (a clockwork minstrel) were the first mechanical toys mass-manufactured in the U.S. Within four years, Marx had been promoted to manage the company's East Rutherford, NJ. plant, and soon afterward he had his first idea for a toy. One of Strauss's products was a toy horn that bleated "Mamma, Papa." Marx amplified the sound effects, redesigned the horn to resemble a carnation and brought it out as a paper lapel flower that doubled...
Mays Landing, NJ...