Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman, throwing caution to the winds, decided to veto the bill, even though it meant an almost complete break with his party leaders in Congress...
...mass-production industries (autos, refrigerators, stoves) cannot afford a price rise if 1) it cuts the market too much, or 2) gives a competitor an advantage. Many industries, which have been slow getting into production because of strikes and materials shortages, are now producing at, or close to, the break-even point. What they will do depends to a great extent on whether the prices of parts and basic supplies (steel, glass, etc.) go up. The manufacturers can afford to wait and see what happens. None of them can afford to lead the price-rise parade...
Ellison hopes to go to press next February with an initial run of 600,000 copies. (He estimates that the magazine can break even on a circulation of 450,000.) The planning board has already chosen a title, but is keeping it a secret from all but nine of the 212 bosses. The writers and artists elect a board of directors (Hersey is president) which can turn Ellison or any other editor out, if they don't like what he is doing with their money and their work. The editor promises to "grant every man his right...
...recently snapped up many a new issue took two weeks to buy American's stock, and at week's end, underwriters still held half the bond issue, were arranging to cut the price. One trouble was that 'the stock market last week had its worst break in four months...
Floyd Stevens and Jim Galloway of the Pastoral Relations Committee of Marysville's Methodist Church came to break the news: the church's trustees had voted to ask the Methodist Conference for a new pastor. Said Pastor Safran of that interview: "I asked why, and Stevens answered: 'It was because of your address at the high school. It is out of place. . . .' I said, 'Is there anything else?' And Jim answered: 'Well, you haven't made enough calls. But do you remember the first Sunday School board meeting when I told...