Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taking the last five games in a row. After it, with almost unplayable serves and drives that made chalk fly from the corners of his opponent's court, he took the second set, 6-4, after von Cramm had had a lead of 4-3. When von Cramm broke Budge's service from 40-love in the second game of the third set, it was his last flicker of resistance. Budge then won four games in a row, carelessly lost von Cramm's service, won his own for set, match & title...
Leading Maine wormster is tall, shrill, husky Kenneth Ely Stoddard, 24, who began digging worms five years ago when he was broke and could get no other job. Now he employs 44 diggers and one packer at Boothbay harbor, supplies nearly half the total market. Because mud is a worm's fighting element, Stoddard worms are dropped in buckets of fresh salt water and kept swimming to prevent them from killing each other off before shipment. They are packed on layers of seaweed in small hampers, 100 worms to the hamper with five thrown in "to take care...
...first began to spoil starched dinner parties by discoursing on the inadequacies of Herbert Hoover, then fell under the spell of an errant Philadelphia socialite, William Christian ("Bill") Bullitt. Thereafter his march down the sawdust trail broke into a run. With his Main Line friends he was in disgrace, but soon he was making other friends, Oilman Joseph F. Guffey, boss of Pennsylvania's Demo-cratic machine; David Leo Lawrence, a practical politician born in Pittsburgh's Old Point section down near the conflux of the Monongahela and the Allegheny; Julius David Stern, radical Jewish publisher of Philadelphia...
...Franciscans and construction soon began at both ends under great engineering difficulties. Then came the 1906 earthquake. Most of the subscribed money was never put up, real estate operators grabbed land. By 1909 at least $7,500,000 had been sunk in the project, and the management was broke. Out forever stepped little Downey Harvey. Trains ran at each end for years, but in 1920 Ocean Shore was officially abandoned, its tracks torn...
...before that year. Since then there have been frequent opportunities to buy Western Union at prices well below $50. Its first 1937 dip below that price occurred fortnight ago, when, after dropping steadily from a year's high of $83.50, Western Union slid to $49.50. Last week it broke...