Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London last week, politicians, bankers and bureaucrats, answering an insistent jangle of telephones, turned pale at what they heard. South African gold shares broke wide open on the stock exchange, tumbled more than $300 million. Winston Churchill augustly gloomed: "A great world statesman has fallen, and with him his country will undergo a period of anxiety and perhaps a temporary eclipse...
...broke like a shot and led into the stretch. Then 41,877 fans saw a sight they had trouble believing. Instead of pulling away, Coaltown was staggering. Vulcan's Forge caught up and passed him. A stunned audience had to wait for a photograph to make sure The Goose had finished even as well as second...
...Seattle, representatives of the northern Presbyterian church (called the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.) met for their 160th General Assembly. Church union was the principal subject-not with the Episcopalians (that is at present virtually a dead letter), but with the Presbyterians south of the Mason & Dixon line who broke away from the northern body during the Civil War. Assemblies of both churches will not vote on union until next year. Then if it is approved by three-fourths of the constituent presbyteries and ratified by both assemblies in 1950, a reunited General Assembly may be held in 1951. Elected...
...recently hiked to $100) in his "Spectro-Chrome Institute." Members got the machine, plus a "favorscope" which tells the best time for starting treatment; for $3.50 a year they could get up-to-date guidance from Ghadiali; for another $10, they could get new panes if the old ones broke (they could have bought them much cheaper at a five-&-dime store...
...main plot: Orson, a "philosophical" merchant seaman who finds it "very sanitary to be broke," signs for a long yacht cruise because Rita Hayworth, who much prefers to be filthy rich, will be aboard. For love of her, he also signs a phony confession to a supposedly phony murder. When the murder turns out to be real, Orson finds himself caught in a frame and the toils of the law. He escapes, literally, through an optical illusion: the real villains of the piece mow each other down in an amusement park's House of Mirrors...