Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find his homeland turned into a half-Sahara. But even passing through the dull, dun, desiccated lands, he was a hero, for after him came RAIN. Within a few hours of his passing, showers followed along his route through Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota. Within three days the heat broke and rain fell, heavy rain, prolonged rain?from Colorado to Kentucky?sopping the dust, promising to save the remnant of this season's crops...
...strong wind was whipping up the sea. For four hours, Angler Howell tried to reel his tuna in before handing his 26-oz. hickory rod to his companion, Arthur De Cordova. All through that night, De Cordova, Howell, Captain Thompson and a seaman struggled with the tuna. When dawn broke the great fish was as strong as ever, still swimming away from the boat and resisting all efforts to turn him. Presently a skiff from the Thalia brought food to the men in the launch. They took turns tugging at their tuna all that day when the rough sea made...
...jury found Dr. Hyde guilty of murder and the judge sentenced him to life imprisonment. An appeal brought a new trial which broke up when a juror went mad. The third Hyde trial ended with a jury disagreement in 1913. For four years more the Swopes egged the prosecutors on, then weary of the expensive procedure they agreed to let the indictment against Dr. Hyde be dropped. Dr. Hyde took a job loading sand trucks in Kansas City, later moved to rural Lexington where he had a small practice...
With her gross weight of 19 tons and top speed of 192 m.p.h., the 8-42 will be the world's biggest and fastest airplane in regular over-water service. Last April in her first test-flights she broke two world's altitude-with-load records, and with her performance last week now holds all existing transport seaplane records. Following her acceptance by PAA last week she flew non-stop from Bridgeport to Miami (1,300 mi.) for shakedown cruises at the company's Dinner Key Base...
...Jack Torrance. Louisiana State's 275-Ib. weight-thrower, with a Brobdingnagian heave of 57 ft., 5 in. that broke all previous world's records, official or otherwise: the 16-lb. shot-put in an international track meet at Oslo, Norway...