Word: corking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corcoran & Cohen. With nothing to tie him down except a general job on RFC's legal staff, he can come & go on a thousand purge missions without being unduly publicized. President Roosevelt likes him, listens to him, laughs with him, trusts him. delegates him. This makes "Tommy the Cork" (as the President calls him*) sound like a shrewd, insinuating schemer-which he is -but for reasons more tough-minded and lawyerlike than his critics credit. From his point of view, the firm of Corcoran & Cohen started out to do a job for a client -the President of the United...
...debentures and a$35,000,000 issue of serial notes yielding from 1¾% to 2½%. In early bidding the debentures jumped to a premium of 99½ (formal price was 99), while the notes (priced at 100) went to a premium of ½ point. Same day Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc., sold $10,000,000 in 4½% debentures at 99. These offerings were the first sign of life in the capital market since U. S. Steel's $100,000,000 bond issue last month (TIME, June 13). Whereas Big Steel's big issue...
...amusement. Boys, he implies, will be boys. Sam was just a good-looking, friendly kid selling pop in a ball park until Art, who knew his way around, took him aside and showed him a few angles. Then he went up fast. He acquired a few attendants: Perry and Cork and a sinister character from Scranton named Max. He talked to all the concessionaires in the city and. because of his friendly way, they were glad to use the brand of pop he pushed. He talked to the barbers. He put short-weight scales in retail stores. He collected accident...
...generals began quarreling. Just before Sam died in a friend's front parlor Max tried to get the doctor to give him an injection so he could say a few words in the presence of witnesses. Outside on the sidewalk, in the dawn, Art and Perry and Cork stood with shoulders hunched and hands in pockets, wondering bleakly what was to become of the rackets...
...Yellow River and the railway. For nine days Chinese forces, often behind providential screens of swirling yellow dust, charged at the Japanese ranks, attempted to wipe out the 10,000. Finally Japanese reinforcements forded the river from the north under artillery bombardment, helped Japan's "Lawrence" pull the cork out of the bottle...