Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liberté urgently needs 500,000 francs. Fascist Col. François de La Roque's Petit Journal, panhandling for millions, has founded a "Club of Friends of the Petit Journal" who give up cigarets or lipstick to contribute 10 francs a month. The Royalist Action Francaise, perennially broke, is still begging another 1,000,000 francs-starting a new campaign on the heels of an old one. Young L'Epoque must have 6,000,000 francs or it will close...
...they run away from. Leader Joe Leuthold at once gave the order to descend. The wind was so sharp the Mazamas had to back down the draw. Ice crusted their goggles; sleet froze on their faces and clothes. After the party had reached the base of the chute, they broke strings, reassembled, continued the descent. Some of them were not dressed warmly enough for the extreme cold...
Leader Leuthold noticed that Mrs. Dorothy Clark, one of the party's two women, and Roy Varney, a veteran climber from Oregon City, were lagging, staggering. Varney said he could hardly see. Two Mazamas, themselves weak, were assigned to support each of them. Then Leader Leuthold broke a climbing rule-that an expedition's leader, like a sea captain, must follow all others out of trouble. He donned skis, tumbled, slid, rolled down to Timberline to fetch the snow tractor. At the lodge he found that the driver was miles away, the key lost...
...security, no pay cuts and the Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) Society. Strength Through Joy provides sports, inexpensive cinema, theatre, military band concerts, exhibitions, holiday trips on its four ocean liners. Last week in Hamburg 18-year-old Lieschen Kiesling, pretty factory worker from a Leipzig spinning mill, broke a bottle of German champagne over the fifth big liner, christened it Robert Ley. Master of ceremonies at the microphone was Reichsführer Adolf Hitler himself...
...station the engineer waited until the paint began to blister on the cars, then pulled out. Ninety waited in a cleared space beside the tracks, were burned to death. Two hundred others raced down the track in another direction, met another train. As they climbed aboard, flames broke out on both sides of the track. Fire chased the train so closely that the engineer and fireman fainted, and when the train finally stopped at a lake the coaches burst into flame. But passengers tumbled into mud, were among the survivors of a day that destroyed five towns, took 413 lives...