Word: cording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shades were down; it took them a minute to realize what had happened. Pascin had slashed his wrists with a razor. Blood spurted over the room but Death came slowly. He stag gered to the wall, scrawled AU REVOIR LUCY in blood with a gory finger, knotted a cord round his throat and hung himself from the doorknob...
Married. Leopoldine ("Polly") Elaine Damrosch, Manhattan Junior Leaguer, pianist, daughter of Conductor Walter Johannes Damrosch and Mrs. (Margaret Elaine) Damrosch, granddaughter of the late great presidential Candidate James Gillespie Elaine; and Sidney Coe Howard, playwright (Swords, They Knew What They Wanted, Ned McCobb's Daughter, The Silver Cord), divorced husband of the late Clare Jennes Eames, U. S. actress who died two months ago in England (TIME, Nov. 17); in Manhattan. Ceremony was performed by the Rev. Frank Heino Damrosch...
Engaged. Errett Lobban Cord, 36, president of Auburn Automobile Co. and Duesenberg, Inc.; and one Virginia Kirk Tharpe; in Los Angeles, Calif...
Simultaneously, Stinson made first delivery to Century Lines on "the largest commercial plane order ever received by an airplane company"-for 100 planes and extra engines and equipment aggregating nearly $3,000,000. Retail price of a Stinson trimotor is $25,900. Youthful E. L. Cord, who opened one of the first automobile washing and greasing stations in Los Angeles, and who hoisted himself through the used-car business to the presidency of Auburn Automobile Co. and the $291,000,000 Cord Corp., is also president of Century Air Lines. With him is his Auburn vice president, L. B. Manning...
...first four months and carried 266 the day before Christmas. With each ship flying 6½ hr. per day, depreciation through obsolescence is low. Costs were kept down also by using ordinary automobile fuel foi cruising, high-priced aviation gas for take-offs and landings only. President Cord's announced plan is to develop Century along the same lines as Ludington, but much farther. The first unit, scheduled to open March 9, will serve Chicago-Detroit-Toledo-Cleveland (which route Stout Air Lines recently abandoned); and Chicago-Springfield-St. Louis. Five trips daily on the eastern route and three...