Word: corking
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...persuade his fellow board members to boom Congo with advertising. They suggested that if he believed it was so good, he should buy the company. That he did, and the renamed product, Congoleum, was Erickson's first big killing. In 1924 he merged his company with Nairn Co. (cork, linoleums...
...poaching on the beer bottle preserve of the glass makers, big Owens-Illinois glass came back with a can-making unit. Last year Owens sold about $6,000,000 worth of cans, which meant perhaps 300,000,000. More annoying to American and Continental is Baltimore's Crown Cork & Seal, No. 1 maker of bottle caps. Last year Crown sold a subsidiary automotive supply business called Detroit Gasket, started to put the proceeds into tin cans. Its production last year was trifling, and even this year after a big new Philadelphia plant is completed, Crown probably will account...
...blobs by such non-objectivists as Vasily Kandinsky, Rudolf Bauer, Ladislaus Moholy-Nagy. As his collection grew he filled the bedroom of his handsome old colonial house in Charleston, S.C. with them, then redecorated his entire apartment in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel in robin's-egg blue, cork walls and homespun tapestries to hang the rest. Over his marble fireplace hangs old Mr. Guggenheim's favorite of the moment, one of a series of four arrangements of circles and lines by Rudolf Bauer entitled Tetraptychon (see p. 36), but he is also extremely fond of two pictures...
...many of her once plaintive claims have become unchallenged rights. She once more has an army which is feared, an air force especially feared because so many Europeans think Hitler and Goring "capable of acting like madmen," and a navy still negligible against Great Britain but able to cork the Baltic neck of the Soviet bottle...
...were being warmed up by the Soviet press which invariably, before and during every big Red trial, assumes that all the accused are guilty, blackens their characters with its highest-powered adjectives, and ordinarily writes of the more distinguished prisoners as if their execution by firing squads in the cork-lined cellars of the Commissariat for Internal Affairs ("Ogpu") was a foregone conclusion. Last week the Moscow editors were writing with higher-powered vituperation than ever before. This was because the Star Prisoner was their intimate friend and colleague of many a year, Comrade Karl Radek, until recently...