Word: corking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Armstrong Cork...
Jews in Berlin's ghetto were forced to act in Horst Wessel last August by Storm Troopers who gave them "stones" (made of cork), ordered them to stone Nazi heroes. Overzealous, the Storm Troops pressed into service an especially hook-nosed rabbi. He turned out to be a citizen of Poland, thus creating a diplomatic incident. In a night club scene, according to the Horst Wessel script, "proud Jews behave overbearingly." A greedy Jew was made to wolf a fat goose in a restaurant scene, while at the next table a lean Nazi couple divided a herring. These features...
...large an allowance under the code but he will at least get the benefit of strict provisions against misrepresentations. The unhappy buyer of a "doped" car can go straight to the district code Administrator with his tale of a tampered speedometer, sawdust in the gears, ground cork in the differential...
...omitted)(ooo omitted) Allegheny Steel ....$303 $8260 Crown Cork & Seal. 971 247 General Foods 9,578 10,339 American Rolling Mill 312D 1,821D Remington Rand ... null 1,301D Bendix Aviation .... 1,096 367D U. S. Steel 28,0740 54,542D General Outdoor Advertising QiQD 1,6970 National Steel 2,569 1,308 Coca-Cola 8,342 8,802 The Bureau of Railway Economics reported the net operating revenue of 149 Class 1 railroads for the first nine months up to $340,000,000 from $197,000,000 a year ago. Whereas most oil companies did not show nine-month...
...went the cork, and Cuba's President Ramon Grau San Martin gratefully drained a glass of champagne last week with Spain's Ambassador Luciano Lopez Ferrer. The occasion was Spain's formal recognition of Cuba's latest government. Spain was the first European nation so to act, though Mexico, Uruguay, Peru and Panama had already done so. ¶Cuba's long-threatened general strike again failed to materialize. President Grau settled himself a little more solidly in the saddle by signing a smart decree. To persuade Cuba's wild-eyed, well-meaning students...