Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Once there was a woman that had done a big washing and hung it on the line. The line broke and let it fall down in the mud, but she didn't say a word: only did it all over again, and this time spread it on the grass, where it couldn't fall...
Hardly had Goodrich's trouble subsided than more serious trouble broke out for Goodrich's neighbor. Goodyear. In Goodyear's (and the world's) largest tire plant U. R. W. members had been grousing because they could not obtain a signed agreement despite an 8-3 labor election victory last year. Lately they have groused about alleged layoff discriminations. When U. R. W. negotiators and Goodyear management got nowhere last week West Akron's forebodings were partly and bloodily realized...
Adolf Hitler put an official stamp of approval on the demonstration by sending the German Military Attaché in Prague, Colonel Toussaint. and the German Air Attaché, Major Moerike, as his emissaries. Wild shouts of "Heil" broke from the mass as Colonel Toussaint stepped forward, laid two huge evergreen wreaths inscribed "Adolf Hitler" and "The Adolf Hitler Standard" on the caskets...
Second Elections. Last weekend, in the second of a series of local elections, street fighting broke out between Henleinists and anti-Nazi German Socialists at Eibenberg, near Kraslice. However, the incident was passed over quietly, for the German press, ordered to cease screaming against Czechoslovakia, remained silent...
...first major victory in 22 years of racing; driving the entire distance without relief and stopping only once (for 30 seconds); finishing five miles ahead of second-place Wilbur Shaw, last year's winner; in 4 hr., 15 min., 58.40 sec., for an average of 117.200 m.p.h., which broke the record of 113.580 set by Shaw last year; before a crowd of 150,000; at Indianapolis. Of the 33 drivers who started, only 13 finished. One, Emil Andres of Chicago, wound up in a hospital after his car turned over three times and one of its wheels flew into...