Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From him Josephine Roche inherited a large but by no means controlling block of stock in Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., third biggest coal mining company in Colorado. Crushed and disorganized by long and bloody industrial warfare, Colorado miners were then brooding another strike. The strike broke. Six workers were killed, 35 injured at the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co.'s Columbine mine. Instead of scuttling back to the peaceful East, Josephine Roche bought control of the company, set out to create "a new era in the industrial relations of Colorado." She invited the dreaded United Mine Workers of America...
Naturally in the recent California campaign many Utopian "hermits" rallied readily to Upton Sinclair, no mean borrower from Edward Bellamy himself. Sinclair's defeat was not the only grief they suffered. Quarrels broke out within the order. Founder Reed and some of his lieutenants fell out. Month ago, Founder Reed appeared in the East, took out incorporation papers in New York for the Utopian Society of America (East...
...almost succeeded. Seventy-two hours after the wrong turn no Japanese paper yet dared mention it. Then Sergeant Honda, closely guarded to prevent his trying to commit suicide, outwitted his keepers and slashed a four-inch gash in his throat. As he was rushed to hospital the story broke wide open. In Tokyo almost everyone expected the Home Minister, the Governor of the Prefecture and all officials however remotely concerned to resign...
...from her own estate at Middleburg, Va., Mary Harriman Rumsey, chairman of the NRA Consumers' Advisory Board, was riding in the Piedmont hunt when her mount stumbled and threw her. An expert rider, Mrs. Rumsey was not spry enough to extricate herself before the horse rolled on her. broke her thigh and four ribs. Rushed to a Washington hospital, she was given a blood transfusion, reported "getting along nicely...
...side was the legend: OLD TOBACCO PRICES-SIX FEET UNDER THE SOD. To the blare of a 40-piece band they marched through the business streets of Carrollton to the Henry County Tobacco Warehouse. When somebody yelled "C'mon folks, the burgoo's ready!" they broke ranks, stampeded for the warehouse platform...