Word: broker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heroes of the boom were an unassuming shark called Galeorhinus zyopterus and a San Francisco fish broker named T. J. ("Tano") Guaragnella. Fishermen had always considered Galeorhinus a piscivorous, tackle-snarling, bait-swallowing pest whose carcass brought only $10 a ton for fertilizer, though Chinese sometimes bought his fins for soup. But shrewd Fish Buyer Guaragnella had a hunch. Seeing a huge Galeorhinus liver, he had it tested, found it was 100 times as rich in vitamin A as cod liver...
General John Joseph Pershing's son, Francis, 32-year-old Manhattan broker, grandson-in-law of famed Banker Jules Bache, enlisted in the Army, went off to Virginia's Fort Belvoir to train as an Engineer Corps private...
From the windows of their Fifth Avenue apartment, overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, an insurance broker and his wife saw a middle-aged woman carry a package into the park, put it under a bush and walk away. That seemed queer. Next day, at the same late afternoon hour, they saw her again. They watched to see what happened to the package. Nothing happened. But in the morning it was gone. No matter how late they watched-and sometimes they sat up very late, with binoculars-they never saw anyone take the box away. But in the morning...
...mysterious woman got to be their favorite mystery. For weeks they watched her daily visits, pointed her out to friends who came to dinner, speculated on what it was all about. Finally the broker got the idea that the woman might be a spy, in which case it was his duty -. Reluctantly, he called the police...
...minutes later the watching broker's curiosity was at last rewarded. Brownie appeared, picked up the box and dragged it away...