Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Venizelos political stronghold of Crete a so-called "general revolutionary strike" promptly broke out last week and Acting Premier Field Marshal George Kondylis asked Premier Tsaldaris what to do in an urgent long-distance call. "Do!" the Premier sputtered at the Marshal. "Why, raise the strikers' pay!" After 4,000 general revolutionary strikers had had their pay upped 15%, Crete subsided in the news, leaving seven dead, 50 wounded, censorship tight...
...this point alert Correspondent Harold Brayman of the Philadelphia Public Ledger broke in to ask: "Does your bill touch family trusts...
Since women are barred from fighting bulls professionally in Spain, they can break into this lucrative industry only by dire expedients. In Madrid last week beauteous blonde Maruja Fernandez, who was a beauteous brunette two years ago when she broke into the bull ring for charity performances, declared: "I believe the Spanish fighting bull is nobler than man. Man is not like the fighting bull which will follow your cape if you are skillful. Man is always seeking advantages and trying to keep woman at a disadvantage. A fighting bull thrills me more than any man I have ever...
...splotch of infantile paralysis which broke out in North Carolina early this summer (TIME, June 24) had by last week spread to Virginia, dribbled into the District of Columbia. In North Carolina 496 cases had been reported; in Virginia 298; in the District of Columbia 22. The Navy ceased recruiting in Virginia and North Carolina. At the U. S. Naval Academy midshipmen were forbidden to visit the affected areas. Delaware compelled visitors from Virginia and North Carolina accompanied by children to report to local health officers for surveillance...
Bullish as were the half-year earnings of most steel companies, they were not bullish enough to account for last week's spectacular rise in steel shares on the New York Stock Exchange where no less than 14 steel issues broke into new high ground. One was U. S. Steel preferred which soared to 100¾, to sink only three-fourths of a point after earnings were announced. Reason was the counter-seasonal boom in steel. While everyone supposed that, as usual, steel operations would wilt in July, late July production turned out to be nearly a record...