Word: corde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swap El Salvador, a knot on the geological cord joining North and South America, is a one-crop country-coffee forming about 95% of her exports. Since 1935, with the coffee market glutted, she has disposed of her crop largely by barter with Germany, getting textiles, hardware in return. Last week the 13,173-sq. mi. nation, the size of New Jersey and Connecticut, decided she needed airplanes for training purposes, for ferrying army freight over her mountains and for remote control over rebel bands in the interior. There appeared to be no better way to get them than...
Swedenborg, inventor of a mercury air pump, a stove, an ear trumpet, believer in the feasibility of airplanes, submarines, machine guns, investigator of the brain, spinal cord and ductless glands, was ahead of his time in nearly every scientific field. He believed he talked with angels and spirits, made excursions through Heaven and Hell, received a revelation of the Second Coming of Christ. Though he spent nearly 30 years before his death (date of which he predicted accurately in a letter to Methodist John Wesley) in writing theological works in Latin, he had no intention of founding a church...
...events was easier for Director Frank Lloyd and his cinemauthor associate, Howard Estabrook, than to relate them coherently and plausibly in a film of less than two hours' duration. Too experienced a craftsman to suspend the full weight of so freighted a period on romance's slender cord. Director Lloyd makes a valiant try at hooking up Wells & Fargo with everything in sight, from notorious Lola Montez to Lincoln's second inaugural address...
...firm is dominated now by a younger group, of whom 38-year-old Gerald Loeb is prominent in the Manhattan office and Gordon B. Crary in the Los Angeles office. Between them these two brokers manage to see a good deal of colorful onetime Motor-maker Errett Lobban Cord, who lives in Beverly Hills...
Last summer SEC jumped on E. L. Cord for certain deals in Checker Cab and other stocks. As a result, while denying the charges, he consented to an injunction forbidding any further manipulation of Checker Cab, Auburn, or stock of any other company in which Cord Corp. had financial interest. Simultaneously, without any explanation, E. L. Cord abdicated from Cord Corp. entirely (TIME, Aug. 16). Since then he has dabbled in Los Angeles real estate while financial circles have dabbled in all sorts of rumors explaining his abdication. Last week, when SEC suddenly pulled the case out of its files...