Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colored with orange peel and possessed "an aromatic bouquet with a heavier underlying odor like that of tobacco steeped in water." The Times went on to add that it "created in the drinker a sensation of self-centered power, while the images of external things buckled and broke." Its title: King Kong Whiskey...
...looked something like anthracite coal, with gleams of yellow, pink and green, recognized it as pitchblende. Surveys and assays showed that the deposit was rich and copious. In 1933 a refining plant was completed at Port Hope on Lake Ontario, 3,500 miles away. The Great Bear Lake find broke the Belgian monopoly, reduced the price of radium to its present level of $25,000 per gram. Few months ago Canada celebrated production of its first ounce of radium...
...line was so prosperous that it declared 6% dividends every month for ten months. Ruinous rate wars broke out among competing companies, however, and the fare to Boston was once as low as $1, to Providence 50?. When Financiers Jay Gould and Jim Fisk got their powerful hands on the line, competition turned from rates to magnificence. Staircases became grander, chandeliers larger and more glittering, furnishings and decorations more sumptuous. In 1883 appeared their first iron-hull vessel, the Pilgrim, which carried 675 passengers. It was taken for granted that anyone would sleep better in a Fall River berth than...
...which red-haired Maurice McLoughlin won from Norman Brookes in 1914. Last week at Wimbledon, when another red-haired Californian, Donald Budge, played husky Charles Edgar Hare of England in the 1937 Davis Cup challenge round, the games seesawed with service up to 13-all before Budge finally broke through to win. What made the set more remarkable was that Hare, England's No. 2, had been considered barely able enough to make Budge stretch his long legs. Even when Budge ran out the next two sets 6-1, 6-2 it caused tennis experts, who had regarded...
...conducted all five scores from memory. When, at the end of Scenes Historiques, the audience called Janssen back nine times, she looked as pleased as he. Since the two were married in a London registrar's office (TIME, Jan. 25) they have been inseparable. Miss Harding broke her hit engagement in Candida to go honeymooning around Scandinavia. They stopped off in Helsingfors and Janssen played his sixth Sibelius concert there since 1934. Old Sibelius again attended, again declared that Janssen was his most gifted interpreter. The packed house cheered and cheered. Finns decked the Janssen car with flowers...