Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Spanish-American War broke out, Wrenn and Larned, who had volleyed shots in many a heated finals, shot a volley together in Colonel Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Wrenn got the typhoid fever. Coming home, he bought a Stock Exchange Seat in 1900 for $50,500, the highest price then on record. For a while he was the Board Member for Day & Heaton; later, with his two brothers he formed the firm of Wrenn Bros., No. 39 Broadway, of which he was a special partner at the time of his death...
...October, the General Motors Corporation broke all records both in earnings and sales. The sales amounted to approximately 96,000 cars and trucks, including Buicks, Chevrolets, Cadillacs, Oldsmobiles, Oaklands. The preceding month of September had established the existing high record of sales at 89,000 cars and trucks. These sales are mostly made to dealers, who are stocking up for the winter and spring demand as well as filling current orders. October earnings rose in proportion. At an average of $130 profit per unit, the month's business must have meant something like a $12,500,000 profit...
...time on the altar of public service. Growing boys are crying out for an athletic example, old men's eyes will flash with ancient fire at the spectacle of his skill and might, young girls will realize that none but the athlete deserves the fair. Nevertheless, he is flat broke. The adulating world, he now says, must remedy his situation; this is the picture of buncombe which springs into most people's heads...
...When Herr Schiele was forced by the Nationalists to resign from the Cabinet, as a protest against the Locarno treaties, he broke down and sobbed on bidding us, his fellow ministers, goodbye. Previously, when asked if he approved of the Locarno Pacts, he answered with a loud and joyous...
...serve as a "hurdle," prodded him with sticks, guffawed and jeered at his bewildered antics. Suddenly the camel, goaded by an intolerable incivility, wheeled on the shivering Shriners. His grey lips rolled back. He bit a Shriner fiercely in the shoulder. His ungainly hoof shot forward. He broke a Shriner...