Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.), a fringe of people stood behind a hemp rope. A soldier passed down the line proffering a roll of cotton batting. The people were advised to stuff bits of the cotton into their ears, stand on their toes, gape their mouths. A moment later there broke forth from eight sinister-nosed 75mm. anti-aircraft guns a maddening, vicious cacaphony that made trouser-legs tremble and skirts sway in waves of force. High in the bright ceiling, some 2,000 ft. above, innocent bits of cotton appeared, no bigger than those in the ears of the crowd...
...dividends, has never responded to continued reports of expansion. In 1928 its earnings were $1.91 a share. Previous attempts to distribute the stock, mostly held by speculators, have been unsuccessful. Early this year a group of brokers ran the stock to 37⅞, but before much was distributed it broke to 21½. Last week it was strong around 28 on belief that the Fox Birthday plan, if successful, will reduce the floating supply...
...diddle a walk." With Bush and English on base, Hornsby and Cuyler, razzed as they came up for having struck out twelve times in two games and a half, each made clean hits. After that Pitcher Bush seemed to get more speed on the ball; his curve broke faster and Philadelphia only got one more hit. Cubs 3, Athletics...
...when the Mexican War broke out, about thirteen hundred men had graduated from the Academy, many of whom rendered conspicuous services to their country. Lee, Bragg, Sherman, Hooker, Grant, and McCellan are but a few of the West Point names distinguish-in the war. Winnfield Scott, who captured Mexico City, wrote in 1860 this famous statement, which every Plebe knows by heart: "I give it as fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats...
...whose pleasure it is to reflect the views of their friends, the brokers. "A statistician who has been always wrong"-"A man for whose opinion the market has no great regard"-"A chronic bear always predicting disaster"-were typical introductory sentences to Babson-flaying opinions. Last week the Market broke and the commentators either blamed the Hatry incident, the Snowden speech, the loans to brokers, or whatnot-or else conceded that stocks had been forced to artificial heights. Vindicated, Mr. Babson said nothing...