Word: corking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peck speaks no Thai, and his China lore will be no asset to him in Thailand. The Thai people love the Chinese about the way a County Cork Irishman loves the British. Like the Irish, Thailanders are not impressed by the bold, underdog fight their neighbors are putting up against the Axis...
...dream-that industry should use more farm crops-and of the chemical inventiveness of his protege, 32-year-old Robert Allen Boyer (TIME, Nov. 11). His plastic, 70% cellulose with a resin binder, is made of soybeans, wheat, cotton, hides, plus a few imported, now hard-to-get ingredients (cork, rubber, tung oil, ramie-formerly used to wrap Egyptian mummies). Last fall Boyer turned out a few panels, had his lanky boss whang at them harmlessly with an ax, was overjoyed when Ford gave him the go-ahead for a complete...
...sending not only marines but trees to Iceland. In the July Journal of Forestry, a young, husky, German-born Colorado forester, Jacob Jauch, tells how he has unofficially exported enough seed from Colorado's cork-bark firs and spruces to produce some 125,000 trees for Iceland's chief forester, Hakon Bjarnason...
Under industry-wide mandatory priorities, which means that no supplier can sell them except to customers who have priority rating, were 14 materials: aluminum, borax (and boric acid),* copper, cork, ferro-tungsten, machine tools, magnesium, nickel, nickel-steel, polyvinyl chloride (for plastics), rubber, synthetic rubber, tungsten high-speed steel, zinc. Pig iron was soon to be added. So were some heavy chemicals-sulfuric acid and possibly ammonia...
...years Timoshenko has known Joseph Stalin. He has risen in his old friend's favor by military ability and by avoiding those political disaffections that have led so many other Soviet officers to the cork-lined execution chambers of the GPU. More than once he has been moved into the post of a doomed officer just before or after the cork-lined walls muffled the sound of the firing squad...