Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then his will broke; he signed the document accepting Gottwald's cabinet, while burly Communist Deputy Premier Antonin Zopotocky looked on (see cut). Said Benes: "This government will only have evil results...
...1920s business news was especially depersonalized. To get business out of the dusty gloom of the financial pages, to tell what one TIME editor called "the vast and lurid and exciting and beautiful bibliography of balance sheets," TIME broke new ground. It went to great pains to get a picture of Sosthenes Behn (the only available picture had a beard which he had shaved long before), and introduced the Hartford brothers to their A. & P. stores' customers. Out of those efforts grew FORTUNE. Even in its early years, TIME was highly selective about the three-inch, one-column portraits...
...quiet Sunday afternoon in Shreveport, La., and two schoolboys (9 and 11) were playing cowboys & Indians in the schoolyard. One of them slung a rock-and accidentally broke a window. That set them off. With a whoop, they threw rocks and more rocks. Great was the slaughter-156 windows-in Alexander School...
...prostrate enemy, they broke into the schoolhouse, whirled through classrooms, smashing pictures, vases, chairs, and lamps. They tipped over bookcases, tore up maps, scattered papers, threw books out the windows. They went to the principal's office, threw ink over the walls, smashed up a radio, a phonograph and every record in the room. At the end, they went back to a classroom and wrote on a blackboard: "I'm sorry we had to do it," and "Too bad-from the people who done...
...rights to one-third of AKU's holdings. This gave the Office of Alien Property controlling interest in North American and Bemberg, which are jointly managed. (The Dutch got AKU's other U.S. subsidiary, American Enka Corp.) No sooner had the Government taken over when a squabble broke out between the board of directors and OAP Boss David L. Bazelon, a New Dealing lawyer who had given up a $50,000-a-year law practice to work for the Government...