Word: cords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last a calf-less one presented a fine target, and I fired. Then started the most exciting and dangerous two minutes I have ever been through. My bullet hit the cow in the neck and broke the spinal cord. She went down, instantly killed. It sounded like a ton of bricks falling...
...famed delayed-opening parachute jumps. His tail of flour against the pale blue sky made him look like a comet's ghost as he plummeted down a full two miles. Not until he was within 1,000 ft. of the ground did he jerk his rip cord, break his 147-111.p.h. fall, soar down to a perfect two-leg landing in midfield...
...Errett Lobban Cord, who last fortnight added ships to his transportation empire (TIME, Aug. 14), last week annexed another province-taxicabs. His loyal, hardbitten Lieutenant Lucius Bass Manning quietly announced that his boss had obtained control of $4,000,000 Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp., largest U. S. company building taxis exclusively. As is almost always the case when Cord Corp. buys up a company. Mr. Cord stepped in as chairman, Lou Manning went on the executive committee...
...says: "What's good about it? All the benks are going to close." Another Language (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This vigorous if slightly over-acid adaptation of Rose Franken's play has the misfortune of being released only three months after the cinema version of The Silver Cord which it somewhat resembles in point of view if not in construction. But where The Silver Cord impeached only one miserable old lady for her exaggerated interest in her sons. Another Language shows the more complicated problems that can arise when an entire family of spineless offspring falls under the ugly...
...last week Errett Lobban Cord, who has grown very rich supplying transportation on land and in air, ventured out upon the sea. He announced that he had added New York Shipbuilding to the lengthening list of Cord companies, most important of which are Auburn Automobile and Aviation Corp. Next day the Navy Department dished out its New Deal contracts and Mr. Cord's shipyard got the biggest slice of all-a $38,450,000 order for two 10,000-ton cruisers and four destroyers (see p. 10). The youngish onetime automobile salesman was at his home in Beverly Hills...