Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Collier's last week, Big Jim Farley swung into a second lap of his "Why I Broke With Roosevelt" series with recollections of some candid talks he had had with F.D.R. about fellow Democrats...
...When I Die." One day last week Mr. Lundy left the grocery store, headed for the Griffiths'. Next day the people of Pinecliffe began to wonder why they had seen no signs of Emily. Finally somebody broke into the shack. The dining table, near a window overlooking a creek, was set for three. On the living room floor lay Florence Griffith, in a puddle of blood. On the bedroom floor lay Emily. Each had been shot through the head with a .38-caliber revolver...
...Gandhi broke his shell. He decided manual labor was essential to the good life; he still thinks Indians will find peace only through making their own clothes on the charka (spinning wheel). So he gave up a legal practice bringing in about ?5,000 a year, moved to a farm settlement where his helpers worked the ground, and began to get out a newspaper, Indian Opinion...
...Hollywood, said she would now divorce him. Alan Stephan, "Mr. America of 1946," married Grace Pomazal, "Miss Quick Freeze." Hedy Lamarr's estranged husband, Actor John Loder, who had been pricked in a dueling scene, had a sword-tip cut from his thigh. And Actor Chester Morris broke his leg in two places dancing at a children's party...
Weather Worries. Prices for corn futures broke all records on the 99-year-old Chicago Board of Trade. They reached $2.00¾ for July corn; the previous high was $1.99⅛, set in 1919. The jump was caused by a forecast of subnormal temperatures for the corn states, already suffering from a cold, wet spring that delayed planting. The Department of Agriculture, calmer than corn speculators, still expects a big corn crop, exceeding three billion bushels...