Word: corks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long time 57-year-old Professor Sleator, whose specialties are optics and spectroscopy, has bottled up his irritation when he read glib squibs about spring "beginning" on March 21, or summer "beginning" on June 21. Last week he blew the cork off with a letter to Science captioned "What is Summer?" There is no reason in nature, logic or language, declared Professor Sleator, why the seasons should be bounded by the two equinoxes and the two solstices. He wants summer to be June, July and August; autumn, September, October, November; and so on for winter and spring...
...work for Willkie's election, was refused, compromised by going on half-time and half-pay. Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co.'s Hugh Morrow announced he would raise an army of 30,000 Willkie campaign volunteers. Other typical Willkie enthusiasts: Wall Street Lawyer Arthur A. Ballantine, Armstrong Cork Co.'s President Henning Webb Prentis Jr., Chrysler Corp. Director Harold Elstner Talbott Jr., Southern Railway President Ernest E. Norris. In the industrial South, businessmen's private talk indicated that many an anti-New Deal Democrat would break ranks for Willkie. Lesser-known backers who typify the kind...
...through the 18th Century, the Spanish tried to get the Rock back. In 1779-83 they and the French besieged it continuously, finally gave up when their fleet of ships reinforced with green timber, cork and rawhide was set afire by red-hot British cannonballs. In that long siege, British General Sir George Elliot lost in action only 333 out of 7,000 men in the face of attackers totaling 40,000. Britain offered to trade Gibraltar for Florida or for Minorca, but the Spanish refused. Spain offered to buy it for $10,000,000 and the British refused...
...perhaps mercury) is irreplaceable. And U. S. processors of cottonseed oils knew what to do about an olive-oil shortage; U. S. rayon and silk men shed no tears at the blockade of Italy; California growers saw a widening market for domestic wine. One product would be partly missed: cork, of which Mediterranean countries (plus Portugal) produce 100% of the world's supply. Last week Armstrong Cork's President Henning Webb Prentis Jr. was glad he had a six to nine months' stock on hand. This would not go far if his next cork supply...
...brief struggle within the Inner Circle for control of the aircraft program, Tommy the Cork had backed Federal Lender Jones against Secretary Morgen thau, who hates The Cork's guts. Messrs, Jones & Corcoran had sought control through vast RFC loans to the air industry; Mr. Morgenthau contended there were no bottlenecks within the industry, there was no bottle. He wanted a new aviation industry, set up on a mammoth scale, and the President agreed with...