Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final series. In her second race Skipper Vanderbilt outmaneuvered Skipper Adams at the start to win by three minutes over the international course. A squall from the north when the boats were running before a brisk southerly breeze blew Yankee's parachute spinnaker flat against her mast, broke the jumper strut and forced her to withdraw from the third race. After the fourth, which Rainbow won in a fresh breeze over a 30-mi. triangle, by two-and-a-half minutes, observers were prepared to hear that Rainbow had been selected. Instead, they learned that another race had been scheduled...
...Philadelphia Athletics: 13-to-5, against the Detroit Tigers; the baseball game which broke 22-year-old Pitcher Lynwood ("Schoolboy") Rowe's string of victories, after he tied the American League record with 16 in a row (TIME, Sept. 3); at Philadelphia...
...rain, three minutes behind his 1933 time. The crowd cheered, sirens screamed, Col. Turner cursed. Eight minutes later he headed east again, "poured on the coal," streaked to New York at half the speed of a high-powered rifle bullet, covered the 418 mi. in 1 hr. 24 min., broke his own transcontinental record...
FROM THIS HILL LOOK DOWN?Elliott Merrick?Stephen Daye Press ($2). Sensitive, perceptive, accurate, slight, a picture of rural Vermont from the point of view of a city white-collar employe, broke and out of a job, who finds satisfaction by a return to the soil; a novel made up of short stories, by the author of True North...
...motor-makers, it did not mean that the urge to merge was lacking. Hupp's biggest individual stockholder, Promoter Archie Andrews, has been thumping for a big merger for years, would undoubtedly like to try his hand at matchmaking if nothing comes of August's moon. Though Graham-Paige broke even last year, it would have as much to gain as to lose by merging. As for companies which have already gone to the wall like Franklin and Willys, merger is their main hope...