Word: corking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...board of 18, that has included the editors of the Freeman; Economists Leo Wolman, Ludwig Von Mises and Leonard Read; Importer Alfred Kohlberg: Armstrong Cork Board Chairman Henning W. Prentis Jr.; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Vice President W. F. Peter, and others. The Freeman is also in debt for $220,000 in notes. Two noteholders: Du Pont Vice President Jasper E. Crane; Sun Oil Co. Director and ex-President J. Howard...
...ASIA Cork & Bottle...
...they could have put only a few men in the limited space on top, while the Chinese could have counterattacked with wave on wave. As a U.S. observer explained: "You can use your whole hand to hold the whisky bottle, but only a few fingers to pull out the cork." So the week ended as it began-with the ROKs on Little Nori, the enemy on Big Nori...
...Arabian Nights, a genie made the mistake of climbing back into his bottle and a fisherman clamped a cork on him. Vienna's police department feels that climbing into a bottle is likely to create grave "danger to personal and public health." Rudolph Schmidt, a carnival stunt man from Bad Hall, holds quite an opposite view. A self-made genie who calls himself the Hindu Fakir Rayo, Rudolph insists that a year spent inside a bottle can provide science with some valuable lessons in controlled diet. It will also, he hopes, attract a sizable crowd of sightseers...
Author Hawley, a businessman himself, got to know the ins & outs of corporate life in 25 years with Armstrong Cork Co. Born in South Dakota, he joined Armstrong in 1927 as an adman, worked up through sales and finance to become advertising director. A short-story writer for slick magazines on the side, Hawley quit Armstrong six months ago to write his first book. Some of his reviewers, he says, were baffled by Executive Suite: they were so accustomed to caricatured businessmen that they kept looking for the tongue in Hawley's cheek. Hawley is not discouraged...