Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suitor In Dallas. Tex., Widow Mrs. L. Brunnett sued for $5,000 damages after Suitor Karl W. Hagedtorn hugged her, broke four ribs...
...Orleans lumber tycoon named Harry Palmerton Williams and a barnstorming pilot named James Robert Wedell, organized Wedell-Williams Air Service Corp., set out to design planes and run an airline. In a Wedell-Williams Racer Jimmy Wedell presently broke the world's landplane speed record. Meanwhile, Tycoon Williams sank $1,000,000 in the firm, made it the world's biggest privately-owned airplane service, flying several routes near New Orleans...
...Croydon." Of late, Captain Mollison and his famed flying wife, Amy Johnson Mollison, have been noted more for the frequency of their parties than for the brilliance of their flying. Fortnight ago Amy made a bad landing in Kent, buried her plane's nose in the ground, broke her own nose on the dashboard. Mortified, she took the occasion to announce: "Jim and I have amicably decided to go our own ways. ... In a few days he is planning to make a very hazardous flight, and while I wish him all good luck, I can't help...
...Music I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread; Now that I am without you, all is desolate; All that was once so beautiful is dead...
Scott Paper, for whose benefit J. Walter Thompson broke down the taboo on toilet paper advertising in the 1920'$, reported nine-months' earnings of $756,442 as against $700,511 a year ago, appeared ready to surpass 1935's full-year profit of $938,574, which was a record...