Word: corking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presidential Adviser Thomas Gardiner ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran used to work until 4 a.m., used to travel far & wide on the moment's spur. Grounded in Washington while his pretty wife Peggy was momentarily expecting their firstborn, he mourned: "This domesticity ruins the irregularity of my life...
This month, when the National Association of Manufacturers gathered for its annual Congress in Manhattan, its outgoing president, Henning W. Prentis Jr., of Armstrong Cork, bespoke the general uncertainty when he asked the Government to define the businessman's new role. A few at that Congress already understood that the best deal they could make with the Revolution was as men of skill and money, not of power. They sensed that their role in it was simply to make money-hard, sterile money, but money to which the world's only remnants of freedom were still attached...
Pink-cheeked, scholarly, hard-working President Henning W. Prentis Jr. (Armstrong Cork) expressed the uncertainty in his keynote speech. Pledging industry's support to the defense program, he granted that industry could produce more than it has "if we are, in the opinion of Government, faced with emergency war production." Then, like a Labor M.P. confronting Churchill, he asked the Government to define its defense aims...
...ages: stone axes, flint weapons and tools, a bronze bracelet and bronze pins, bone combs, glass beads, hand mills for grinding grain, whetstones, Viking silver, and, according to the diggers, the finest ceremonial circle of druid stones in Eire. In charge were Professor Sean P. O'Riordain of Cork's University College and his assistant lecturer, Miss Caitriona MacLeod, a witty and personable young woman who speaks and dances Gaelic. A typical Stone Age house which they unearthed, 32 feet long by 18 wide, had walls of stone and wood, a thatched roof supported by rows, of wooden...
...bushels, surplus 250,000,000); 700,000 bushels of soybeans (81,541,000 bushels grown this year); 500,000 bushels of corn (ten-year average yield 2,299,342,000 bushels); lesser amounts of hides, lard, glue, pine pitch, sugar-cane alcohol and flax. Imported materials would be cork, rubber, tung oil and ramie, Egyptian mummy-wrapping fibre. Best of all, wheat, corn and soybeans are interchangeable. Ford can use all three, or only...