Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story never broke. Mr. Lewis was the first to emerge, snapping, "General conversations-no conclusions. We are in recess until 4 o'clock." Said Mr. Green a few minutes later: "We held a satisfactory and most interesting conference, but arrived at no conclusion. We will go back into session at 4 o'clock." After the 4 o'clock session Mr. Lewis rumbled: "Same story as at noon." And this statement was seconded by Mr. Green. Both studiously avoided arriving or departing together...
...flight, announced that he had received a letter in which the Colonel said he hoped to be in St. Louis "very soon." A New York Times reporter named Lauren Lyman, who acted as Colonel Lindbergh's "go-between" with the press during the Hauptmann trial and later broke the news of the Lindbergh decision to live abroad, has been the newspaper world's best authority on all Lindbergh activities. Transferred to his paper's Washington branch, Reporter Lyman had heard nothing about the impending visit and the rumor presently died. Last week, when the U. S. Liner...
...three Japanese soldiers struck by fragments and stumble haltingly," said Publisher George Bruce of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury. "There was a burst of blue-black smoke. The parade broke for a distance of 100 yards. For a moment everything was quiet. Then the Japanese soldiers began scattering to both sides of the street. The exact time...
Paris-France's Colonial Exposition of 1931 broke even budgetwise only when the Senate Finance Commission wrote in a theoretical profit of 50 millions of francs as an "increase in values which cannot be accounted for by the statistics of the Finance Ministry"-i. e., national prestige and local business promotion. This year's Paris International Exposition, which closed last week for the winter, will presumably also be subject to such budgetary juggling. For it cost $64,600,000, of which an estimated $49,000,000 came as a direct Government subsidy. By last week...
...penetrating powers to electrons of certain velocities. Dr. Anderson's data showed that electrons did conform up to energies of 300,000,000 volts. Above that energy level there appeared to be an unorthodox particle of great penetrating power. If this was an electron, the Bethe-Heitler theory broke down at high energies; if the theory was valid the particle was something heavier than an electron...