Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first Export-Import Bank was created by Franklin Roosevelt in 1934 to fill the need for Russia alone. Pending debt settlements between the two countries, this bank did nothing and the Second Export-Import Bank was set up to handle credits for Cuba. When negotiations with Russia finally broke down, the two banks were merged with power to lend to all nations except Russia...
...declared it a pause while business caught up. Meanwhile, steel production rose again, reaching 39.8% of capacity, an eleven-point rise since prices were cut June 24. Lumber production and wholesale food prices were also up. Freight loadings were off more than seasonally, as was power production. Wheat prices broke to new lows for the year and bank clearings slipped $700,000,000 from the previous week, were 14.6% under a year...
When a storm broke a window of Philbert Hartshorn's hardware store in Owosso, Mich., he wrote the company from which he had bought insurance asking them to replace it. The company did nothing. He wired: REMEMBER THAT YOU ALSO CARRY OUR BURGLARY INSURANCE. Repairs were promptly made...
...Place de la Concorde to the Palais d'Orsay, last week was a stately military parade, enlivened by wave on wave of cheering, and by Gaelic chaffing at the expense of "That scared rabbit Sarraut!" As the King's car reached the Place de la Concorde, there broke out from the Eiffel Tower an enormous Union Jack, said to be the largest flag ever made, promptly cartooned by Robert Edmond Sparling in the Washington Herald as "A Warning to Dictators...
...have his tonsils treated, was the substance of the week's biggest scoop, scored by the New York Mirror (Hearst). Free-Lance Correspondent Robert Chulsky, 21, an employe in a building near where Hope Dare lived, tipped off the Mirror and Photographer Smooke. Day after the Mirror story broke, to the acute embarrassment of District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, other dailies picked it up. New York Herald Tribune headlined: DEWEY'S OFFICE DOES NOT DENY DAVIS SEES GIRL. Most obvious explanation was that an attempt was being made, through Miss Dare, to blandish Dixie Davis into turning State...