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Noble Causes. The bleats of innocence could be heard from Trenton to Albany. Nearly everyone, it seemed, had visited Joey on behalf of someone else or in the interest of some noble cause. The explanations tended to confirm reports that Fay was still firmly in command of the construction unions, that he was handing out jobs to "graduating" comrades at Sing Sing and to relatives of cooperative prison officials, and that he was masterminding the raceway shakedowns...
...order came from Federal District Judge Phillip Forman of Trenton, N.J., who had found G.E. and six other defendants* guilty of monopolizing bulb manufacture through control of patents. Judge Forman also ordered that 1) the defendants share all future patents with the rest of the industry, 2) G.E. and International G.E. stop discouraging partly owned foreign companies from competing in the U.S. lamp market, 3) all bulb agreements between the defendants be ended...
...Dough. Canned beef pot pie was put on the market by Trenton Foods, Inc. of Kansas City, Mo., which claims to be the first to can dough successfully. The pie needs no refrigeration, can be baked right in its pie-pan-shaped tin. Price: 69?, enough for three servings...
Lightning at Christmas. Then he gambled. Five nights later, in numbing cold on Christmas night, he took his little force across the ice-clogged Delaware. Wet, half-frozen, lashed by driving sleet, it marched nine miles to Trenton and surprised the town and its Hessian defenders. The Americans triumphed in less than two hours of fighting and without the loss of a man. They killed or wounded more than 100 of the enemy, captured 1,000 more, and with them, 1,000 muskets and six brass fieldpieces. Only three days later they audaciously invaded New Jersey again, and stayed...
...kind of revolution has been taking place since World War II. It has turned rolling farm land into acres of industry, converted flatlands into cities. In the past eight years, few sections of the U.S. have undergone more industrialization than the Delaware Valley, stretching from Trenton 60 miles south to Wilmington...