Word: corks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought, besides the self-portrait, some clear, flowing Italian landscapes, some easy, informal portraits. He brought as well his wife, the Countess Wally, daughter of Arturo Toscanini, famed conductor, whose hobby is painting. Herself unmusical, Countess Castelbarco likes to wear shoes modeled on those of the Medicis, made of cork, with five-inch heels, three-inch soles...
...Commander Matthews (George Brent), everything goes like clockwork. In the equalizing chamber the crew stands chattering about horseraces and San Diego girls while water creeps up to their waists, submerges the lower end of the tubular escape hatch. Presently the hatch cover is raised, a line attached to a cork buoy shoots upward to the surface and the men don "escape lungs," resembling hot-water bags. Then with clips holding their noses and mouthpieces gripped between their teeth, the crew in alphabetical order follow the escape line by easy stages to the surface...
...General disapproval by bankers of President Roosevelt's financial policies is old and enduring. But last week there was little expression of it in Boston. Guest Speaker Glenn Frank, erstwhile president of the University of Wisconsin, rapped at the Administration, as did President Henning Webb Prentis of Armstrong Cork Co., and both were resoundingly clapped, but the vast majority of topics discussed in the four-day conclave dwelt upon problems more pertinent to bankers than to the nation...
...newest of the Earth's States is, on the whole, naturally wealthier than the State it must conquer to survive. Leftist Spain has the mercury mines of Almaden. But these are more than matched by Rightist Spain's coal, iron, copper. The country's olive orchards, cork forests, vineyards are about evenly split between the two warring groups. The Leftists control the orange groves in the eastern province of Valencia, and thus the principal Spanish export in normal times. But the Rightists own Spain's bread basket, the great granary of the northwest, leaving to Valencia...
...rich, by forced conversions of foreign securities into Burgos bonds and by credits ($180,000,000 last January and probably much more today) from Italy and Germany. Also in Burgos, the Delegate of State for Industry & Commerce, Senor Joaquin Bau, is busy encouraging the exportation of wine, oil, cork, minerals (which can be procured in almost pre-Revolutionary quantities) to acquire foreign exchange...