Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Grain Exchange, split them further by growling: "I view with deep concern the increasing interference of governments with international trade. . . . The delegates are very charming diplomats, but very few of them know anything about wheat." Finally last week Argentina's Delegate Tomas A. Le Breton broke up the meeting by handing in Argentina's flat refusal to join in a minimum price agreement. That produced the climax all members had long been expecting. A subcommittee was named to inter the remains of the Wheat Conference...
Last month on her way across the U. S. from California to Florida the U. S. S. Macon got into rough air over Texas, broke two small girders, proceeded to Miami for repairs. Last week she set out to join the U. S. fleet in the Caribbean for maneuvers. Through a fog of military secrecy leaked news that not only had the Macon been "destroyed" by "enemy" aircraft, but also she had again suffered actual damage...
...promotion methods in those days were not what they were to become later in the century, but that gap was neatly bridged by the demands that the new steambeats and the even newer railroads were making on the producers of iron and steel. Pheu, in 1854, the Crimean War broke out, and Eagene (alone now, following Adolph's death) converted l.e. Creusot almost exclusive to the manufacture of arms. The family fortune was founded; the family tradition was established...
...clock the evening before the 60th annual running of the Kentucky Derby in Louisville last week, fire broke out in stables U and W at Churchill Downs. The barns were destroyed, a few horses ran wild in the infield, but none of the 19 high-strung Derby entries was much disturbed. Throughout the night, Derby guests continued their yearly romp, the less restrained firing the annual barrage of empty bottles into the court of the Brown Hotel in spite of the fact that Kentucky is now wet and liquor is sold by the glass. Next morning light showers fell, sending...
Foreign Correspondence. Most famed managing editor the New York Times ever had was Carr Van Anda, who held the desk from 1904 to 1926, the title for six years more. He had an able assistant named Frederick T. Birchall. Born in England 63 years ago, Frederick Birchall broke in as a volunteer reporter on a provincial newspaper, worked a whole year for $2.50. In 1893 he went to the U. S., covered Manhattan police headquarters during the exciting days of Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt. In 1905 he got a desk job on the Times...