Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry IV, Part One," for instance, HTW barely broke even, and yet the play drew large crowds for each performance. For services connected with the use of Sanders, the Workshop had to pay the University about $560. If the play had been a failure financially, HTW couldn't have paid its bills. And apparently, University aid in such a dilemma would not leap forth...
...hard luck which battered at the skiers hopes all weekend, Laurie Griffin's front throw on his cable broke at the top of the downhill course. Sans hammer or screw-driver, Griffin pushed the throw into the ski, tightened his bindings in the hope that tension would keep the harness intact, and copped 19th place. His time of 79 seconds was eight behind the winner...
Barclay should know. He became "a very close friend" of Valpey's when the two played on the same Wolverine elevens in '35, '36, and '37. Both men broke into the Michigan coaching organization together...
...With every ounce of gold and every dollar she could lay her hands on, Britain's reserves stood at only about $2.6 billion. If they fell to $1 billion, Britain would be too broke to act as banker for the sterling bloc, which might then fall apart. And gold and dollars were running off at a hemorrhagic rate of $200 million a month...
Effect. The commodity break posed a big question. Was it the start of a healthy general shake-out of inflated prices, or the ominous warning of a recession? When grains broke in 1920 (see chart), other commodity prices sank with them and threw the whole economy into a temporary tailspin. Before last week's break, wholesale commodity prices (as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics) were within 3.5 points of their 1920 peak. The grain prices had gone far above their post World War I high. Though the break had come too fast for official tabulation to keep...