Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against the owners of this building, not the police. . . . Now, come along. ... Go home in an orderly, disciplined way, worthy of the dignity of the working man." Through the crowd went three or four Communists, saying soothingly: "Now steady, comrades, steady, keep your heads." Finally the demonstrators began to break...
...Trouble. Their only hope was to get rye in Winnipeg. Rice & Co. and General Foods hastily tried to bottle up the Winnipeg rye market. But one of the shorts was wily Cargill Grain Co., an old hand at corners. Cargill hustled enough Winnipeg rye to Chicago to break the corner, and drive down the price of rye futures, which had risen from 64¼? a bu. to $1.32 5/8. Two years later, it rose to $2.86 but General Foods had sold out. Final loss to General Foods...
...Break with Bess. What Cinecolor needed most was money, management and the confidence of the movie industry that it could turn out the films it promised. Loss provided all three; first he raised $500,000, cleaned up debts of almost $100,000. Reorganized with Loss as vice president and general manager, Cinecolor's output of film was increased 250% in six months, chiefly for a dozen small-budget pictures (best-known: The Enchanted Forest...
...sharpest break in the market in 19 years. In five hours, all the gains of the last year-along with some $4,500,000,000 in values-had been wiped out. Next day there was another avalanche of selling (3,620,000 shares). Then the market rallied, but only briefly. As this week opened, the market cracked wide open again. The Dow-Jones index fell to 172.03, a decline of more than 17 points in only five trading days...
Heidt can hardly read music, plays no instrument well. He became a bandleader for a businesslike reason: to make money. He stuck strictly to his musical last until 1941, when he began buying likely bits of property. The big break came two years later. Heidt guessed that a profitable urban Los Angeles ballroom, the Trianon, could be bought by catching the owner off guard with enough ready cash...