Word: cording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ronald Lindsay] handed Statesman Stimson a heavy brown envelope tied with blue cord. Inside, the brawny Briton explained, was another note from His Majesty's Government on War Debts...
...succeed Albert Henry Wiggin as head of great Chase National (see p. 27) but his big achievements lay ahead of him. Scanning the realm of business the well-informed citizen would probably conclude that the biggest and boldest strides against the economic tide were those of Errett Lobban Cord who turned from highways to skyways in his restless effort to expand. The year proved that there was no such thing as a Depression-proof industry. Yet John Hartford's Great Atlantic & Pacific food stores, by holding the line, came closest to an exception...
...canary flowing. A huge hound or two yawns about the table for food or crunches a bone on the hearth. Talk is free and boisterous until the fire burns low. Then a young boy, a page or a wandering minstrel, with a lute suspended from a silver cord around his neck, comes in with a repertory of ballads and lyrics, and sings for them--Campion's latest stanzas, perhaps, or some slight verses of his own. The crude excitements of the times vanish in the music, and the dogs curl up their paws by the flames...
...Cord bought the little-known Martz Airlines, operating direct between New York and Buffalo. This adds a valuable New York channel to the Transamer-ican Airlines (Buffalo-Chicago) which he lately bought. Both systems will be offered to Avco at cost...
Reported and denied: That Cord is negotiating for purchase of Northwest Airways, a potent airmail system which flies from Chicago as far northwest as Duluth, Bismarck, N. Dak.. Winnipeg. Avco already owns 22½% of Northwest stock. A like amount is said to be owned by Transcontinental & Western Air, the remaining 55% by Minneapolis bankers...