Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SCAP's critics claimed that Mac-Arthur's young zealots were going too far and too fast. SCAP seemed to be trying not only to break up the big combines but to atomize the Japanese economy as well. In theory, the solution was one of degree. Last week in Tokyo the Deconcentration Review Board was studying the degree...
...Clergy. In his will, Stephen Girard declared that "no ecclesiastic, missionary, or minister of any sect whatsoever" be allowed within the college wall. His next of kin, hoping to break the will on the basis of the anticlerical clause, once hired Daniel Webster to argue the case. Webster lost...
...other hand, the Crimson faced this problem, with a cross-country train ride thrown in a year ago, and turned up in Seattle just in time to break a world's record over the same distance...
Averages were up again; the Dow-Jones industrials closed at 190.25. Again the ticker fell behind. For the first time in 20 months, the Big Board had to put out "flash" quotes (i.e., break the sequence of transactions by flashing the latest prices of such key stocks as U.S. Steel and General Motors). At week's end, stocks on the Big Board were worth some $3.5 billion more than at week's start...
...that the break had come, the big question was: How high would it climb...