Word: corks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the little Welsh port of Fishguard, the motor vessel Innisfallen slipped last week on its regular ferry run across St. George's Channel from Cork. Below decks a cargo of Irish cattle and pigs bellowed and squealed. Higher up, in a snug cabin, a heavyset, greying gentleman of 64 and a red-haired girl of 25 slumbered, as they afterwards said, undisturbed. The noisy beef and bacon had been put ashore long before the two passengers emerged and a newshawk obtained their first honeymoon interview...
Just as exterior streamlining has been made up of one part bunk to one part science, the interior "improvements" in these trains will cater largely to U. S. reverence for looks & luxury. Besides scientific lighting, air conditioning, electric signal systems, the Century and Broadway will have leather, cork, copper decorations, flossy bars, photomurals of skyscrapers, pink lights to transform dining cars into "night clubs." Passengers will call the porter not with bells, but with chimes...
...professors. Three critics of business-Professors George Sylvester Counts, F. Ernest Johnson and Edward Hartman Reisner-thereupon started the fur flying. Four businessmen hit back-Mark M. Jones, president of Akron Belting Co.; George Harrison Houston, president of Baldwin Locomotive Works; Henning Webb Prentis Jr., president of Armstrong Cork Co.; Dr. Harold Stonier, executive manager of American Bankers Association...
Thus the Dictator can hope other Russian bigwigs who might want to kill him have now been made to realize that such impulses lead, via the secret police, into the court cheering section for Stalin, thence down into the cork-lined cellars where this week the 18 were due to be noiselessly executed. Rozengolts' protestation that his children are loud in the Stalin chorus may save them, but the piece of consecrated bread may well mean death for his wife. Nothing was known last week, nothing is ever published, about the fate of members of the families...
...Savannah and Canada's Royal William, both with auxiliary steam equipment, had sailed the ocean years earlier, the little 178-foot, 700-ton, paddle wheeler Sirius was greeted by the mayor as the first vessel to cross the whole Atlantic under steam power. Wooden-built for the London-Cork service, her transatlantic voyage was an experiment. In her wake next day arrived the paddle steamer Great Western, specially built for the Atlantic run, carrying 140 passengers...