Word: corde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dock Co.-two 20,000-ton aircraft carriers at $19,000,000 each. To Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.-one 10,000-ton cruiser with 8-in. guns at $11,720,000; four 1,850-ton destroyers at $3,896,000 each. To New York Shipbuilding Co. of which Errett Lobban Cord last week bought control (see p. 41)-two 10,000-ton cruisers with 6-in. guns, at $11,677,000 each; four 1,850-ton destroyers at $3,775,000 each. To Electric Boat Co.-two 1,400-ton submarines, minus main propelling machinery, at $2,770,000 each...
Errett Lobban Cord, automobile & aviation tycoon, was watching an airplane motor on a test block in a Los Angeles shop. The propeller snapped, sheared through a wire netting, knocked him unconscious. At a soaring meet at Elmira, N. Y., Richard Chichester du Pont, 24, son of Vice President Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. took his father for his first hop in a sailplane. A shift in the wind whipped the heavy glider into a ground loop, spilled it into a clump of bushes. Pilot du Pont & parent were unscratched...
...audience felt better when Professor Bohr, fiddling with a loudspeaker cord, short-circuited the apparatus and made it blare. It was much easier, and more pleasant, to understand round-faced young Professor Ernest Orlando Lawrence of the University of California tell how he transmuted elements with "deuton" bullets...
...monoplanes with twin Wasp engines, the new Boeings whipped back & forth between San Francisco and New York in 21½ hr. westbound, 20 hr. eastbound-about 10 hr. faster than former schedules. On the New York- Chicago run the new ships heated the already hot competition between United and Cord's American Airways. Few weeks ago Errett Lobban Cord put on a fleet of new "silent" Curtiss Condors, slashed the running time down to 6½ hr. westbound, si hr. eastbound. The new Boeings lopped another hour from that time...
...favorite Bonette stunt is the ''bomb drop." At the proper moment the daredevil, who has been stunting on the trapeze, hanging by knees and by teeth, pulls a cord releasing a bag of bombs which explode beneath the balloon, enveloping it in a cloud of smoke and a glorious blaze of fireworks. Completely concealed he then yanks his "quickknife" cord, a gadget which cuts the parachute free...