Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...polite ultimatum: they were plainly in agreement on the principle of union hiring; let them within 36 hours settle the technicalities, start digging coal. Back in Manhattan the two sides were still wrangling when the time limit set by the President expired. Early in the morning as the meeting broke up U. S. Conciliator John Roy Steelman issued a statement: ". . . As Government representatives, we are asking that such companies and associations as are in agreement with the [union] sign contracts and begin operations immediately ... to relieve the grave crisis facing the nation. ... It is the purpose of the Federal Government...
Last week another battleship slid down the ways of a British shipyard. One anchor broke after she left the ways, but the second held and the vast shell of the 35,000-ton battleship Prince of Wales floated easily in midstream of the River Mersey. Launchings have lately been commonplace ceremonies in the ceremonial-ridden British scene. Last twelvemonth has seen two battleships, one aircraft carrier, two cruisers, 16 destroyers, seven submarines launched...
...another test of reasoning from, economic facts, students were to tell the effect on supply, demand and the price of American wheat in the world market if a major European war broke out and agricultural wage rates in the U. S. rose...
Long-legged, youthful-looking Powel Crosley Jr. towered above a tiny automobile at the Indianapolis motor speedway one day last week while his grandson broke a bottle of gasoline on its nose and 200 Crosley Corp. dealers applauded the christening. Then Mr. Crosley tucked his six-foot-four frame comfortably behind the steering wheel and posed for photographers...
Title. The title of Finnegans Wake comes from an Irish music-hall ballad, telling how Tim Finnigan of Dublin's Sackville Street, a hod carrier and "an Irish gentleman very odd" who loved his liquor, fell from his ladder one morning and broke his skull. His friends, thinking him dead, assembled for a wake, began to fight, weep, dance...