Word: corking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Belgium protested tariff increases on glass, cement, bricks, leather, chemicals. Spain, vexed at higher rates on cork and peppers, threatened to denounce the trade modus vivendi between it and the U. S. Australia complained of the wool duties; Denmark, of those on hides and skins; Italy, on canned tomatoes, olive oil; Mexico, on fresh vegetables; Austria on hats, shoes, glue, tapestries; the Netherlands, on diamonds, glassware, brick; Switzerland, on watches, embroideries; Persia, on rugs; Uruguay, on wool, meats, hides; Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Honduras, on bananas, coffee...
...manipulations. To render it epileptic they dose it with candied sugar, tannin, brandy, alum. They mix it with other wines. They shake it. They set each bottle rump in air, and they oblige it to spit?and this word is a euphemism?the muck that has settled against the cork. . . . The manufacturers, in spite of all difficulties, finally conquer the undisciplined beverage. They stick a label on its belly, slap a gold or silver plaque on its head, and there it is ready to conquer the world...
Seven Fordson tractors, made in Ireland, last week passed the U. S. Customs duty free. Their free passage resulted from their classification as "agricultural implements." Importance of this decision lay in the fact that Mr. Ford has moved his entire tractor business to Cork, whence it is expected that 100,000 Fordsons a year will eventually be sent to U. S. buyers. The decision also encouraged Ford Internationalism, hastened the time at which the sun will never set on Ford factories...
...Convention opened with a few well Hoover-chosen words from Washington; then came many another greeting radioed from absent speakers in distant lands, on distant seas. During the long-distance conversations there was heard the loud popping of a champagne cork. No illegal pop was popped, however, as the report proceeded from the Berlin hotel of Ernst Filsinger, head of the Export Managers' Club of New York. Exporter Filsinger told the delegates that he was very sorry not to be in Baltimore with them. Then he made his champagne cork pop, thus testifying to the miracles of modern science...
Died. Jesse Tyler Dingee. 63, Brooklyn, N. Y., cork tycoon; in Brooklyn. Unable to walk for 15 years, Corkman Dingee conducted his extensive business interests from...