Word: corbin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State auditors working over U.S. Trust & Guaranty's books discovered that the company had paid out as legal fees $4,800 to the law firm of State Senator Rogers Kelley, $500 to Senator Kilmer Corbin, other sums to Senator Carlos Ashley and to Senator Jep Fuller, and had retained State Representative Bert McDaniel as counsel. (Kelley and Corbin both said they did not know that their firms were being paid by U.S. Trust & Guaranty...
When a friend suggested that the youngster look for work at the race track in Charles Town, W. Va., willing Willie went down and picked up a job cleaning stalls for a small-time owner named Norman Corbin. Before long he was working as an exercise boy, and two years later, in October 1952, Corbin gave him his first mount. On his third try, riding a horse named Nickleby, Willie won his first race. Overnight, Willie became one of the hottest riders on the half-mile "bull rings" around West Virginia and Maryland...
Mason, Professor Arthur L. Corbin of the Yale Law School, and Professor-emeritus Charles A. Kraus of Brown, all Kansas graduates, were given citations for distinguished service--Kansas equivalent of honorary degrees which it does not award...
...ninth Earl of Sandwich (whose 18th century ancestor, the fourth Earl, refused to interrupt his whist games for meals, insisted instead that a slab of meat and two slices of bread be brought to him at the gaming table, is thus credited with inventing the sandwich); and Amiya Corbin, 50, secretary of a Hollywood Hindu cult; both for the second time; in Huntingdon, England...
...Wind. It was an ill wind, in fact a hurricane, which blew Ottinger into the plywood business. Part of his father's $100,000 had been used to buy a big grove of gum trees near Corbin, La., in an experiment to dye living trees to make the wood look like mahogany. The experiment worked but nobody wanted to buy the wood, so Ottinger lost his shirt. When a hurricane blew down so many nearby oak trees that Ottinger got them just for hauling them away, he found himself in the lumber business. He became such a lumber expert...