Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...performing in Baby, Take a Bow Shirley Temple was still getting $150 a week. Last week the picture was held over for a third week at Manhattan's Roxy Theatre. It broke box office records in Kansas City and Chicago, seemed likely to be one of the most profitable Fox productions of the year. Forthcoming is another Temple picture, Now and Forever, in which the child will be starred with Carole Lombard and Gary Cooper. No youngster in the memory of Hollywood oldsters had ever scored such a quick and complete success with cinemaddicts...
When the meeting broke up the Association had informally decided to ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to raise freight rates at least 10%. Railroad revenues approximate $4,000,000,000 annually, of which $3,000,000,000 is from freight, $1,000,000,000 from passengers. A 10% freight rate increase would bring in $300,000,000 annually. But the railway executives well knew as they rolled home in Pullman drawing rooms last week, that to add 10% to the freight charges on lightweight commodities for short hauls would only drive even more business into the hands...
...effort to conserve the Fatherland's dwindling store of foreign exchange-sure to be needed to buy vital food imports next winter-Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht recently decreed a sweeping moratorium (TIME. June 25). Last week British threats of retaliation broke the moratorium as far as British holders of Dawes and Young loan bonds are concerned (see p. 15). This breach in the Moratorium Front looked certain to widen before onslaughts at once launched by the U. S. and French Embassies in Berlin. There seemed to be only one answer for Germany: controlled inflation, bulwarked by government control...
...encounter a mysterious school of whales reported by a fishing captain off the New Jersey coast, reported no fatalities. Most serious accident was one which befell Mason B. Rumney on the Baccarat. When a large wave hit the rudder, he was tossed into the cockpit by the tiller, broke two ribs. The Vamarie arrived with her radio set out of order, her navigating instruments broken by high seas. Slowest boats in last week's race were Robert P. Baruch's Zingara and Dainty, owned by a Bermuda blacksmith named Al Darrell. They were two days behind the winner...
...completion of a vast freight station in Lower Manhattan, President Frederick E, Williamson of the New York Central took 1,500 Manhattan businessmen, financiers and politicians over the route. At one point where their special train was going at only 5 m.p.h., the hose of the air brakes broke and stopped the train instanter. President Williamson's chair leg broke, spilling him on the floor. William Kissam Vanderbilt landed on his nose. Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times careened against his august neighbors. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who was along "to take care of my biggest taxpayer...