A single corporation developed nearly all the trolley lines and lighting companies of New Jersey; another controlled similar utilities in San Francisco and other cities on the Pacific Coast.
— from The Age of Big Business: A Chronicle of the Captains of Industry by Burton Jesse Hendrick
The Public Service Corporation of New Jersey also comprised a large political power in city and state politics.
— from The Age of Big Business: A Chronicle of the Captains of Industry by Burton Jesse Hendrick
As to the polyglot council which Pike held with the Puants, we may hope without believing that the Winnebagoes were deeply impressed by the combination of New Jersey and Canadian French which fell upon their ears through the Dakotan tongue.
— from The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 1 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7. by Zebulon Montgomery Pike
It was evident that as soon as the two new roads would meet at New Brunswick, an understanding would be reached between them, by which another through line would be created between New York and Philadelphia, which would have the advantage over the Camden and Amboy road that it touched the capital of New Jersey and could thus make itself serviceable to members of the legislature, officers of State and influential politicians.
— from The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee
There, as a result of the excellent work of Allen and Peterson (1936) and Stone (1937), a similar effect has been demonstrated when northwest winds shove the south-bound flights up against the coast of New Jersey and concentrate large aggregations of migrants there.
— from A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds by Lowery, George H., Jr.
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