Word: broker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Viscount Mountbatten, India's Viceroy, whose vigorous leadership had won acceptance of the new plan, was careful to point out that he was acting merely as a broker in the vast transaction. The splitting of India was the Indians' choice. As an earnest of British intentions to get out as soon as possible, His Majesty's Government had promised Dominion status to the two Indias as soon as they could set up governments to receive British power. Said Dickie Mountbatten: "I've got my ticket bought for August 15th...
Durham, a Chicago fabricator and steel broker, joined the daisy chain through a broker named McAleer, who phoned him long distance. If Durham could be in New York that night, said McAleer, he could buy 100,000 tons of steel. Too eager to pack, Durham grabbed a spare shirt, flew to New York, and hurried to the rendezvous in a suite in Manhattan's Hampshire House...
...Centuries. Chen Li-fu is not much in the news these days. It is not up to him to win the civil war, block the inflation or get reconstruction going. He has set himself the less immediate but greater task of a chih-k'o, or marriage broker, between two great civilizations-one based on the culture of Confucius, the other on the technology of the West. His activities toward this end take two very different forms: he writes erudite books on social philosophy and he operates a political machine that extends from Chiang Kai-shek...
...leave Harry and find a tired-looking, silver-haired broker resting for another go at the pit. What was all the excitement about today? He keeps an eye on the pit and says: 'It's a nervous market. On Wednesday the Government came back into the cash wheat market after being out for three, four months. . . . The market turned into a mad house. May wheat went up the limU-from $2.67 to $2.77. Then Thursday morning it went up to $2.85. Then the market was top-heavy on the buying side; those who had bought took their profits...
...plumpest literary plum of World War II-the memoirs of Winston Churchill-fell this week to LIFE and the New York Times. It was prize fruit of massive size (projected as five volumes, 1,000,000 words), and many a newspaper, syndicate and magazine broker had hopefully shaken the tree. The price for the U.S. serial rights Churchill kept to himself, but gossips had been guessing for more than a year that his remembrances would sell for a record $1,000,000 or more...