Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Poland, afraid that some of her territory may soon be grabbed by the Nazis just as she lately made a grab in Czecho-Slovakia, hastened to strengthen her sudden friendship with Russia. Traditional enemies, Russia and Poland month ago broke a long period of diplomatic coolness with a declaration of their good intentions toward each other. To this rapprochement last week was added a trade treaty which is expected to multiply thirtyfold the trade between the two nations...
...lozenges to Mylon. The boy struggled, gagged, then broke into spasms of coughing and retched up nine marbles. "I swallowed them five years ago," he gasped. Three days later he said he felt better and his father called in reporters and babbled about a new medical discovery...
...more to help continue the New Deal by staying in harness where I am than by going into this contest in Chicago." Two days later Honest Harold Ickes visited Chicago, expressed his regrets to his would-be drafters ("I know you wouldn't want to kill me"), broke ground with a silver drill for the Chicago PWA-financed subway, ran out to Winnetka to inaugurate a grade-crossing project...
...rather than improvement, is industry's usual objective. When consumer demand rises, new plants are built to increase production; then recession nips demand and the new plants are not needed. In the case of the Irvin Works, Big Steel was operating at around 90% of capacity when it broke ground in May 1937; last week steel production was dawdling at 58% and full-scale operation of the Irvin Works would mean the shutting down of other Big Steel plants...
...over-the-counter trading the company's bonds broke from 103 to 56.75, its common stock from...