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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George Merck liked the country so much that he settled in Manhattan. He was quick to see the immense opportunities for technical industry in this new nation, growing up behind its protective-tariff walls. His U.S. partnership of Merck & Co. bought 150 acres at Rahway, NJ. In 1903 the plant began making much the same line of chemicals and medicinals as its parent firm was making on the other side of the tariff wall...
...NOBLE-SOSMAN Westfield, NJ...
General Motors, the world's biggest manufacturing corporation, has grown accustomed to earning the world's biggest profits as well. Last week Standard Oil (NJ.) made G.M. take a back seat. Jersey Standard's 1951 profits set a new record of $528,500,000 after taxes, up 29%. This, for the first time in six years, put it ahead of G.M., whose 1951 profits, hit by material cutbacks and excess-profits taxes, totaled $506,100,000, v. $834 million the year before...
Died. Rev. Joseph P. Connor, 56, Roman Catholic parish priest and successful composer of popular songs (The Miracle of the Bells, When I Take My Sugar to Tea, By a Waterfall')', of arteriosclerotic heart disease; in Teaneck, NJ. Pastor (since 1947) of St. Joseph of the Palisades Church, West New York, N. J., "Father Joe" wrote popular songs under the pen name Pierre Norman, under his own name wrote a mass in the Gregorian style. A member of ASCAP (American Society of Authors, Composers, and Publishers) for more than 25 years, he gave royalties from his music...
Fuel Fixer. An emergency fuel unit for automobiles and trucks was brought out by the Viking Tool & Machine Corp. of Belleville, NJ. The gadget, which holds one gallon of gas, is installed on the carburetor, and operates independently of the regular fuel system. It is guaranteed to start a car when it is out of gas, has a frozen or leaky gas line or a faulty fuel pump. Price...