Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bait. In Chicago, Irving Drell left $700 outside a safe in his office, hoping that if thieves did break in, they would take the ready cash and leave the safe alone. That, Drell finally complained to police, was exactly what some thieves had done...
...Harvard-Yale meet, "we had to put boxes under the standards to allow Grant and Gilbert to tie for first place at 11 feet, 6 inches." A keen judge of vaulting ability, who claims that "without good form the pole vaulter can do nothing," Mike expects Pete Harwood to break the current college record of 13 feet, 11 3/4 inches this spring...
...American, thought there were. Together they talked a group of English backers into supporting the hunch with ?23,000. Last week they put out the first issue of the 16-page, pocket-size weekly American Outlook. Outlook will sell for a whopping five guineas ($21) a year, and will break even only if it gets 5,000 subscribers...
...Encourage new press ventures, new techniques, maintain competition through the antitrust laws, but use those laws sparingly to break up big units; and see to it that "necessary" monopolies operate in the public interest...
...there, at $2.70½, it stopped. The break was painful to many traders, but not disastrous. In fact, by scaring hundreds of speculators out of the market, it might well forestall the disastrous fall that everyone had thought wheat was headed...