Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese engineer of the Hongkong-Canton Express kept it going full speed last week after fire broke out in the middle of the train. Three wooden rear cars burned down to their steel underframes and more than 100 Chinese passengers were roasted to death in the speeding pyre. Said the engineer when his train was finally stopped: "I didn't notice it had caught fire...
Most cause for catcalls had old, famed Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., one of the world's largest music houses, best known exhibitor at the show. Two years ago, to recoup Depression losses on organs, pianos, violins, Wurlitzer broke into the coin machine market with nickel operated phonographs, Skee-ball games. Last year it is supposed to have grossed about $8,000,000 on these items alone. Last summer Rock-Ola, which had acquired patents on the coin phonograph from the old Deca-Disc Co., sued Wurlitzer for patent infringement. If this case goes against it, Wurlitzer may lose...
Graham Cummin reigns among the backstrokers, and should find little difficulty in floating through an undefeated season. Last year, Cummin broke the intercollegiate record, but was able to retain his title for only one week. In the next meet, against Princeton, he suffered his only dual defeat of the season but forced his rival to lower the mark he had set up. This son of Nassau is not competing this winter, which should leave things pretty much Cummin's way. Crosby Keller will be his understudy...
...only was the expense of digging it out terrific, but diggers hit a well which flooded the basement dressing rooms. On Feb. 10, 1936 the show went broke, rehearsals were temporarily abandoned. The backers - rich and loyal Jews like Presi dent Maurice Levin of Hearn's, President Alfred A. Strelsin of Reliance Advertising Co., Banker Felix M. Warburg, Publisher Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post- had already put up $250,000, were unable or unwilling to continue bearing the full financial responsibility...
...mined this tin were agreeing to extend for five years the cartel by which world tin production is determined. Set for the first quarter of 1937 were production quotas at what the International Tin Committee calls "standard 100%," practically identical with 1929 production (192,000 tons). Siam, which nearly broke up the agreement last year by demanding a bigger quota, came into line with an allotment of 18,000 tons yearly. Other annual quotas: Britain's Malay Peninsula, 71,940 tons; Britain's Nigeria, 10,890 tons; Dutch East Indies, 36,330 tons; Bolivia, 46,490 tons...