Word: cording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baiter and Prime Minister of Persia's King Xerxes (Ahasuerus). The King finally had him hanged for his virulent anti-Semitism upon the intervention of Queen Esther, a beautiful Jewess. *In Ipswich, England, Tommy Hailstone, 12, was found by his sister last week, hanging by a cord in a storeroom. Said his father: "I believe Tommy had been reading in the papers about the Xiirnberg hangings and was staging a hanging himself...
...fast for a long time," says David S. Biddle '49, of his handsome 1932 Cord convertible, "the rear floorboards burst in to flame...
...broken is a result of their faulty installation too close to the door partitions of the booths. When it is necessary to leave the phone for some reason, the person using it must let the receiver hang in the air, so that even the slightest vibration of the receiver cord sways the receiver and cracks it against the partition. Each new person using the phone is unaware of this, and takes another chip out of the receiver. A simple sensible solution would be to install wall racks or merely a stationary hook to set the receiver on. Alden R. Adams...
...With the Cord Corp. in hand, V.E. changed his tactics. The crash of one empire had taught him a lesson. Instead of mushrooming all over, he tried to make some sense out of the rickety maze of companies (45) he had. He wanted to turn Cord, the bad holding company, into a good operating company. One of his first moves was to drop the Cord name, substitute Aviation and Transportation Corp. for the top holding company. Then, like a horse trader, he sold, bartered and junked the money-losing companies in ATCO and AVCO and a holding company of lower...
...Cord settled down in Los Angeles, piled up another fortune in real estate. Last week he boasted: "I've just turned down $12½ million for [my holdings...