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...rate of 12,000 to 15,000 tons within a year. Since total U. S. production last year was only 6,500 tons, their proposal sounded fantastic. But they had Kaiser's record to prove that nothing was impossible, and among their attorneys they had Tommy ("The Cork") Corcoran, who knows as much about cutting Government red tape as Kaiser knows about foiling time and nature...
...Puzzled over a job for Tommy ("The Cork") Corcoran, who Washington rumor said was slated for an Assistant Secretaryship of the Navy-although some said War. Meanwhile "The Cork" prowled about more secretively than ever, still in too much of a hurry to buy a new overcoat to replace the seedy out-at-seams chesterfield he has worn for nine years...
...sheet of flame and smoke hung over the Illustrious as her anti-aircraft rolled up a curtain of fire. Through it the Stukas kept boring in. Bombs crashed alongside in columns of white water, battered the carrier's side, set her dancing like a cork in the heaving sea. Machine-gun bullets raked her decks, covered by now with a jagged carpet of splinters and shell casings...
Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Corcoran, a daughter, their first; in Washington, day before the re-inauguration of Tommy the Cork's big boss...
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...