Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found that all the milk, apples, meat, shoes for sale there came from the North. To make the South selfsupporting, he said, "means a lot of work. It means, incidentally, getting the South out of hock to the North. I don't believe that the South is so broke that it cannot put its own capital into the establishment of its own enterprises...
...natural fortress of boulders and timber, near Clark's Fork Canyon 30 miles northwest of Cody, Wyo., Earl Durand, 26, the huge, hairy "true woodsman" who broke jail in Cody last fortnight and shot down two pursuing peace officers (TIME, March 27), lay waiting and watching one day last week. They had sentenced him to six months in jail for shooting a bull elk out of season, threatened him with ten years more for killing a beef cow. Now they wanted him for double murder. A posse of peace officers under Sheriff Frank Blackburn was down below, coming...
...palms sweated so that he had to dry them. He dabbed his fingers with chalk, got a grip of sorts on himself, picked up the ball, sighted down the maple strip, and let fly. It was his only erratic shot. There was a gasp as it crossed over, broke toward the Brooklyn (left) side. But on the left side is the 1-2 pocket, which bowlers sometimes call Last Chance Gulch, and right in there Bowler McGeorge's last straying hook nudged its way. Obedient to the master, the pins vanished into the pit, every last...
...international celebrity. At his first studio press conference, he offended his employers by explaining that his pay was $50,000, after the studio had announced it as $100,000. Corrigan drove to & from the studio in his 1928 Franklin, once delayed shooting for 30 minutes when it broke down en route. His lunches in the commissary rarely cost more than 25?. Corrigan got his first view of The Flying Irishman last fortnight, week before its national release on St. Patrick's Day. He had avoided seeing the rushes lest they make him selfconscious...
...Barren Collier says"), hotelman, realtor, world's No. 1 streetcar-card adman, whose company's posters are said to be seen by 1,200,000,000 people per month; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1933, Barren Collier, always a big-time speculator, announced he was broke, declared a moratorium, became the first U. S. tycoon to take advantage of the amendment to the bankruptcy law which President Hoover signed day before he left office...