Word: corks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Armstrong Cork's Henning Webb Prentis Jr. took U. S. relief policy to pieces. He said that 1) no one really knows how many unemployed there are, 2) many persons now on relief shouldn't be, 3) unemployment insurance should not be paid while a worker looks around for "suitable employment...
...Airplane engine carburetors have been vastly improved since the old cork-float type, but they still tend to get clogged with ice in a certain temperature-humidity range. This can be prevented by valving in hot air from the exhaust stacks. But if anything goes wrong with the hot-air valve, the engine conks just the same. To get rid of carburetors, fuel-injection systems have been devised to shoot into the cylinders tiny jets of liquid gasoline...
...mounting antipathy to the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations. The suppression of the Dail Eireann by the British shocked Americans who thought they had fought the war for the self-determination of peoples. The hunger strike and eventual death of Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, brought pro-Irish feeling to white heat and overshadowed for a time the U. S. Presidential contest...
...great newspaper reader. Combing the classified ads one day, she found one asking for a young actor to play black-polled Mickey McGuire in a series of shorts based on Cartoonist Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Trolley strip. Mom blackened little Joe's tow head with burnt cork, and for the next seven years Joe Yule Jr. made 78 Mickey McGuire pictures at $200 a picture. He also had his name legally changed to Mickey McGuire. But in 1932 Producer Larry Darmour shelved the series...
...Welcomed into benedicts' ranks bounding, longtime Bachelor Thomas Gardiner Corcoran (who married his secretary, Peggy Dowd). Washington wits surmised Peggy had struck for better hours; wondered how the news hit No. 2 Braintruster Ben Cohen, whom The Cork has long jestingly called "My Wife...