Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steel Workers Organizing Committee (TIME, March 15). The small fry of the steel industry rapidly followed suit. Only possible obstacles to complete organization of Steel were the major independents, Bethlehem, Crucible, Inland, Jones & Laughlin, Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, National, American Rolling Mill. Fortnight ago the storm broke over them with a brief 36-hour strike in Jones & Laughlin, which was settled when the management agreed to stake all on a labor election to determine by majority vote whether or not S. W. O. C. should have exclusive representation for all Jones & Laughlin workmen (TIME...
Next afternoon just as the ancient twin-funneled royal yacht sailed off toward Portsmouth harbor, there broke from its yardarm the little signal flags dear to every sailor's heart. By the tactics of 100 years ago they meant, "Splice the Main-Brace," i.e., repair the stays holding up the middle of a frigate's three masts. By venerable naval usage "Splice the Main-Brace" means to issue an extra round of navy rum to every man jack aboard ship. Again the fleet...
...first ten years of the meet's history, competitors at Fresno broke eleven world's records, tied three. Last week, they broke two more. Elroy Robinson, Merced, Calif, schoolteacher, ran 1,000 yards in 2 min., 9.7 sec.-to break the record made by Luigi Beccali of Italy in 1933. Stanford's 880-yd. relay team (James Kneubuhl, Ray Malott, Stanley Hiserman, Jack Weierhauser) scooted around the track in 1 min., 25 sec.-.8 sec. faster than the mark set by a University of Southern California team in 1927. Runner Weierhauser's tape-breaking...
...Rivers was just flowering as a Johns Hopkins pediatrician when the War broke out. As a first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps he saw so much of the influenza epidemic of 1918 that after the Armistice he became a bacteriologist and the nation's foremost authority on the submicroscopic, filterable viruses which cause diseases like influenza. His great achievement, accomplished at the Rockefeller Institute, was to grow viruses in tissue cultures. This permits quantity production of unadulterated virus, so far chiefly useful for further research. Dr. Rivers latest work has been on a new disease, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, which...
Still jolting downward last week were two British-dominated commodities, rubber and cocoa. In Manhattan, following one of those perennially disastrous revisions in the estimates of the Gold Coast crop, cocoa broke the full 1?-per-lb. limit, dropping well below 7?. There were strong suspicions that British cocoa interests had given U. S. speculators another thorough whipsawing, the British having the advantage not only of controlling the biggest source of supply but also of controlling the statistics. Only a few months ago the figures indicated a shortage, and cocoa was merrily bid up above 13? per lb. Last week...