Word: corded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American International Corp., and its troubles began. From 1925 on it was bought & sold first by brilliant, eccentric Laurence Russell Wilder, a promoter, who dropped its name and combined it with his electric equipment manufacturing firm of American Brown Boveri Electric Corp.; then by Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord, a promoter too. Present owner (since 1938): canny, balding Victor Emanuel's Aviation & Transportation Corp., which controls 102,800 of its 175,000 founders' (voting) shares...
...last week the carefree life was drawing to a close for Akihito. His cute rice-bowl bob was shaved right to the pate. He was given last fittings for a navy blue serge uniform trimmed with red cord, a cap with a bright brass cherry blossom badge. The Prince was ready for school...
...Puppies off to a 2 to 0 lead in the first period, but early in the next to the second Yardling line put the Crimson back in the game when the George Hackett took Pop Jenk's pass, circled the Yale defense, and rammed the puck under Cord Meyer's pads. John Paine evened the count ten minutes later when he slapped Bill Ray's pass into the Eli nets form a scrimmage in front of the goal...
...holding company that remained a holding company was ATCO. At that time it was called Cord Corp. and its head, hardboiled, dynamic Errett Lobban Cord, was fast becoming the least regimented syndicateer in the flying game. But in 1937 Motorman Cord sold out his Cord Corp. holdings. About a quarter of them went to his broad-shouldered, boom-voiced No. 1 man, Lucius Bass Manning, already a large stockholder. The rest went to a syndicate headed by British Bankers J. Henry Schroder & Co., and to young, up-&-coming Public Utilitarian Victor Emanuel's investment house, Emanuel & Co. (in which...
...them were moments which could never be forgotten: the disheveled hair of a dead woman slowly falling, straight and perpendicular, between the massive halves of a drawbridge as they rise (Ten Days That Shook the World); the medical officer's pince-nez, dangling from its black cord with pendulum-like regularity after catching in the rigging when the officer is thrown overboard by the crew (Potemkin...