Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-end had induced householders to spend $100,000,000 on home renovation. But the Federal Reserve's latest index of industrial production stood at 74%, almost the exact level of a year earlier, while NRA, without last year's Man of the Year Hugh S. Johnson, broke like a wave on the beach; its price-fixing efforts abandoned; its collective bargaining feature challenged in the courts; its funeral oration read by Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors: "Today the magic possibilities of industrial regimentation and the so-called planned economy no longer cast the spell of yesterday...
...circumstantial case sufficiently powerful to convince twelve Hunterdon County jurymen "beyond a reasonable doubt" of Bruno Hauptmann's guilt. In charge of this difficult task is David T. Wilentz, the State's Attorney General who took over the prosecution of the Hauptmann case as soon as it broke last autumn. Small, dark, shrewd 40-year-old Prosecutor Wilentz is not only a good orator and jury handler but an able politician as well. Coming from Perth Amboy in Middlesex County, however, he will have no great local influence with the jurors in Hunterdon County. Last week he charged...
Before Denver & Rio Grande broke ground for the Dotsero Cutoff, it bought control of the Moffat Line. But the Interstate Commerce Commission required the Denver & Rio Grande to buy any or all minority stock offered for the same fat price paid for control. For these various undertakings Denver & Rio Grande needed RFC assistance, and in a deal which the New York Herald Tribune rated as "one of the most complicated and most involved in railroad history," Mr. Jones ended up with practically all of the Moffat stock in his bulging portfolio of collateral. To "keep in touch with the situation...
Because of the terrific physical strain involved, Pilot Breese had himself taped from head to foot before going up. At 20,000 ft. he leveled off, nosed his ship straight down at full throttle. He was making 425 m.p.h. when his air-speed indicator broke. He kept on diving, pulled his plane out successfully...
...admit the truth of the charge, denies that Grant ever drank more "than any number of successful men in and out of military life." Later, however, he admits that Grant was induced by one of his subordinates to sign the pledge for the duration of the war, sometimes broke...