Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Limbo the Director General of Railroads (William Gibbs McAdoo's Wartime office, its onetime payroll of 2.000,000, now down to one clerk), the War Finance Corp., National Bituminous Coal Commission (its function to Interior...
...recent months rumors have reached steelmakers that Pittsburgh's Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., whose stockholders have fared thinly in recent years, had developed a photoelectric indicator ("robot eye") which, by judging the color and brilliance of a Bessemer heat better than human eyes can, made it possible to turn out steel with Bessemer rapidity but of a uniform quality comparable to that of the open-hearth product. The J. & L. researchers guarded their secret vigilantly, declared darkly not long ago that two other companies had tried to swipe...
Tradition of the ancient bells of the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow in London is that anyone born within reach of their chimes is a Cockney. The chimes are also used during British Broadcasting Corp.'s medium-wave broadcasts in German, and lately in Germany anyone within reach of them has been in danger of having trouole with the Gestapo...
From the sprawling Consolidated Aircraft Corp. factory on Lindbergh Field a huge flying boat waddled down to land-locked San Diego Bay one day last week. In the bright California sun her slim wing looked absurdly frail, her huge hull with its upswept stern grotesquely fat. Nevertheless, her little band of professional observers knew they were watching a plane designed to be the last aerodynamic word...
...down. Aggressive National Steel Co., always up front among the price cutters, admitted that it didn't "know what the price is," was reported taking fill-in business from all comers to be rolled in one lot when enough of it accumulates. Ponderous U. S. Steel Corp. first disregarded the buzzing and biting of the mosquitoes, denied it was doing anything at all, finally "reaffirmed" present prices for the third quarter, in fact cutting them $3 a ton by extending previous "quantity deductions" to all small lots sold. This left the giant of the industry $8 a ton above...