Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pavilion, N. Y., one of Penguin's, inner gear cases broke. In Troy, Dr. Poulter had to stop to pick up some instruments. While Penguin labored along the hairpin turns and precipitous slopes of the Berkshires, it caused the greatest traffic jam New England had ever honked...
Another immediate result of the Reynaud-Simon performance was a bullish flurry on the Paris Bourse and the London Stock Exchange, where business-as-usual is the rule, and transactions now, though smaller than normal, are in larger volume than just before war broke...
Defiant speeches drew a crowd of thousands, and patient Czech police, without truncheons or revolvers, began slowly and persuasively to edge the excited students down toward the river. Some students who refused to be herded broke from the rest, dashed into old Palace Square. Since they seemed bent on nothing more than singing Czech and Slovak national anthems, the unarmed Czech police were all for letting them alone, but German civilians with drawn revolvers suddenly appeared and drove the police to drive the students back to their university...
...other "preparedness goods" were revealed to have run up during the past nine months an import balance of 345,000,000 kronor, whereas for the similar period last year Sweden's surplus of imports over exports was only a mildly depressing 140,000,000. Since War II broke, Dr. Wigforss revealed, Sweden has lost roughly 300,000,000 kronor of foreign exchange, due partly to "hot money" withdrawals by investors who are afraid the Soviet Union will yet muscle into Scandinavia as it has into the Baltic States...
...Catherine the Great's palace was the "mechanical" wonder of the age: laden banquet tables which, on command, rose or sank through the floor. They were manipulated by "a forest of human hands" whose owners stood waist-deep in the habitually flooded basement. Frequently the ropes broke, the tables dropped, the operators were crushed to death...