Word: cording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...European girls took apiol, an oily fluid obtained from parsley flowers, as an abortifacient. Both the European apiol and the U. S. ginger extract had been adulterated by viciously shrewd manufacturers with a tricresyl phosphate, newly discovered organic chemical which destroys nerves in the spinal cord (TIME, July 28. 1930). First nerves to go are usually those controlling the muscles of the feet, next those leading to the hands...
...Cord v. Cohu (cont...
...Banker Lehman (TIME, Oct. 31). About the same time Harold Ellstner Talbott Jr. resigned the North American Aviation chairmanship. His place was filled by George Newell Armsby, chairman of Bancamerica-Blair Corp. which sponsored North American. Guessers everywhere tried to connect the two resignations with the presence of Mr. Cord. But, as for Banker Harriman, the explanation lay in his newly acquired chairmanship of the Union Pacific Railroad-a return, after ships and airways, to his father's tracks...
...Bustling little Congressman-reject Fiorello Henry La Guardia (N. Y.) warned the Postmaster General that he would sponsor a strike of Avco pilots if Cord should get control...
...About $10,000,000 operating loss, $20,000,000 asset shrinkage in Avco statements: according to Mr. Cord, $38,000,000 asset loss...