Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rubber men answered that question in detail, last week; but not until they had done some furious trading. As the Baldwin announcement flashed over the cables to Manhattan, bedlam broke loose in the red-brick building which houses the New York Rubber Exchange. At the close of a day of pandemoniac selling all records for volume of turnover had been shattered by transactions totaling 8,985 long tons and exceeding $5,000,000 in value. The average price, chalked up again and again with fractional variations by perspiring board boys, was 21? per pound...
...Yale Swimming team broke the world's relay records for 200, 250, and 300 yards at New Haven...
...along the fences, washing up into a wave in the grandstand. It had been raining in the morning, but the rain had stopped; the sky was full of shifting clouds through which the sunlight shone in patches. Three times the horses, picked English, French, American jumpers, lined up and broke before the flag sent them away for the Grand National, the world's most famed steeplechase, run annually since 1839, near Liverpool, England...
Joseph Davidson of Chicago had a pretty girl, an automobile, a dozen watches and diamond rings. He drove into a gasoline station, said to the attendant: "Listen, sport, I'm in a jam. I've got to take my girl to a party and I'm broke. Can you loan me 25 bucks on this here watch?" The attendant obliged Mr. Davidson, who then went to other gasoline stations to dispose of his watches and rings. Mr. Davidson was no philanthropist. His watches were tin, his diamond rings glass. At the tenth station he was arrested...
Yale swimmers in their own tank broke the world's record for 400,500, and 600 yards. Yale now holds every swimming record from 200 yards to a mile...