Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago negotiations to end the great 1937 automobile labor war broke down when the United Automobile Workers failed to evacuate its sit-down strikers from two General Motors plants in Flint (TIME, Jan. 25). The fighting in Michigan having bogged down into trench warfare, the active front shifted last week to Washington. Thither went Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, as he had planned to go anyhow to attend Franklin Roosevelt's inaugural. Thither went General Motors' President Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and Executive Vice President William S. Knudsen, thither Homer Martin, president of the striking union...
...Ohio the river which gives the State its name went hog wild, first broke all records established in the 1913 flood, then proceeded to top the even more disastrous inundations of 1884. Full of foam, mud and debris, the Scioto River swept down on Portsmouth, which seven years ago threw up a $750,000 sea wall of steel & concrete to keep the Scioto and Ohio away from its doors. Last year to the 62-ft. wall was added a supplementing levee of sandbags and Portsmouth stayed dry. This year the flood was not to be cheated...
...Caesar Borgia in the shade!" The brains of Trotsky are strictly first-class. Scathingly he asked why the letters he was supposed to have written had not yet been produced in Moscow; he once more offered to produce the whole of his voluminous correspondence to prove that he broke with Radek as far back as 1928; he demanded that prisoners who confess in Moscow that they saw him in Oslo or elsewhere describe the room in which these confessed encounters (which Trotsky denies) took place. He heaped his most biting scorn upon the charges & confessions of Red Romm. Where...
...dead reckoning on the crest of a 60-m.p.h. gale. In the four hours it took him to reach the Mississippi somewhere near St. Louis, three events broke the monotony of his 375-m.p.h. speed-two glimpses of land through the clouds, a brief flurry when his mask went askew. Not until he saw the long furrows of the Alleghenies did Flyer Hughes slant down in a long power dive to Newark. There, no one was aware of his coming until the crescendoing whine of his racing engine jerked heads aloft. Like an angry dragonfly, the little ship buzzed across...
...went wild. He was full of pep. He was all over the place. I never saw anything like it. He wagged his tail so hard that he knocked three loose rungs out of my front stairs banister. Twice I locked him in a cage outdoors. Both times he broke loose. Then I tied him. He chewed himself free. He was too much for us. About a month ago we had to destroy...