Word: cording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's crowd caught its first glimpse of "Pop" Cleveland greeting each woman pilot in the Cord Cup Race with an enormous hug & kiss. Fifty-nine planes had set out from Washington and Los Angeles a week earlier, their paths converging at Bartlesville, Okla. into a home stretch to Cleveland. As it was scored by lap-points, everyone knew when the racers reached Cincinnati that Roy Hunt of Oklahoma would win in his slow Great Lakes Trainer...
...shock-cord crew of ten men stood ready in front of a black-&-white Hailer-Hawk sailplane named Unguentine. In the cockpit sat Warren Edward Eaton, one-time War flyer, executive staff member of Norwich Pharmacal Co. (Unguentine), president of the Soaring Society of America, Inc. Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davison made a little speech, fired a little pistol. "Walk!" shouted Pilot Eaton to the shock-cord crew. After they had begun to walk, stretching the elastic cord, he cried "Run!" Down the hill they ran for ten paces or so, stretching the cord tauter. Then...
Antic Auburn, Usually price-cuts are bad news to a company. Last week when Auburn Automobile Co. cut $300 to $700 from the prices of its cars. President Errett Lobban Cord cheerily stated it was part of a campaign "to put men to work." Motormen noted that Auburn's low prices are now within $200 of Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth, some $300 below its leading competitors in the $900-$1,000 price class. During the first four months of the year Auburn had 1.1% of the total U. S. passenger car business against 1.6% in the same period...
...birthday, the moonbeams, the skyscraper and treasure chest were pleasant things. The reality was not. It was the same reality which has caused many a semi-retired executive to return to his desk, including John North Willys. Errett Lobban Cord, Henry Holiday Timken, Otto Hermann Kahn. It was the reality which has so upset Mr. Doherty's fellow utilitarian, Samuel Insull...
...Well of Loneliness. The last, sympathetically telling the story of a girl born sexually inverted, created a stir because of its literary merits, a scandal because of its theme. The scandal was not lessened by the fact that Authoress Hall wears mannish shirts and ties, a monocle on a cord, is called "John" by her friends. Suppressed in England, the book was vindicated in the U. S. by a Victory Edition. Asked if its story was autobiographical, Authoress Hall told all the world...