Word: corking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next three years. Last week a few details trickled out of Paris, and they were enough to raise U.S. eyebrows. In return for coal, crude oil and corn, France will send Russia 100,000 tons of rolled-steel products, 3,000 tons of lead, 3,000 tons of cork, six 5,000-ton freighters, 25 steam boilers and 200 cranes plus several shipments of textiles and North African fruits...
...Marquette's cargo-wines, liquors, marble, foodstuffs and cork from France, Italy, Spain and Portugal-was a symbol of the flourishing postwar trade between Europe and Great Lakes ports. Shippers estimate that the all-water route is 10% to 20% less costly than rail-water transshipment from Europe via New York City. There are now 44 ships in the service, all shallow enough in draft to navigate the St. Lawrence River canals (maximum depth: 14 ft.) and short enough to get through the smallest lock...
...once called upon "to do good work for our beloved President, Franklin Roosevelt," or, at least, Tommy ("The Cork") Corcoran, an F.D.R. crony, had hired him to do some investigating and had said it was for Roosevelt. When sub committee members demanded to be told just what kind of job it was, Grunewald balked again: "I don't think the President would want it [told]." The subcommittee wearily pondered whether Grunewald, already convicted of contempt of Congress, was in contempt again...
...uncanny accuracy. On a 114-yd. hole, her tee shot arched to the green and dribbled plunk into the cup for her eighth hole in one. Minutes later, on a 190-yd. hole, she sank No. 9. Said Mrs. Small, hopefully: "This doubleheader may have put the cork in the bottle...
...cork floor is being replaced with asphalt. This is in preparation for the installation of stacks on the level...