Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same city, two years ago, Gil Dodds, the runner whose style outraged the copybooks but whose speed broke mile records, had forsaken track to preach the word of God. His old coaches had begged him to try running again. Finally he agreed. Explained earnest Gil Dodds, 28: "I prayed about it, of course. And my wife consented...
...third quarter of his race, Dodds fell two seconds short of his planned time, but still nobody was near him. His old rival, Leslie MacMitchell, had won a 4:17.2 mile the night before and was obviously overtired. Dodds broke the tape 35 yards in front of the nearest man, New York A. C.'s Tommy Quinn. Dodds's time - 4:09.1 - was the fastest indoor mile Boston had ever seen. The crowd cheered lustily for five minutes...
...Atlantic shores remained much as they had been before they separated; but the Pacific shores crumpled the earth's crust ahead of them, like the bows of ships plowing through thin ice. Thus were formed the still growing, earthquaky mountains which ring the Pacific today. When the crumpling broke a hole through the solid crust, hot "magma" burst to the surface, building a volcano...
...does get control, he plans to mesh the Central into his other railroads. Next step in Young's master plan is to gain control of the bankrupt Missouri Pacific railroad, now fat with war profits. By virtue of the stock he held in it before it went broke, Bob Young hopes to have control, when it is reorganized...
...cutting smokeless powder at the Du Pont war plant at Carneys Point, NJ. at 28? an hour, ended up in the Du Pont treasurer's office in Wilmington. In 1920, having inherited $15,000 from his maternal grandfather, he moved to New York and went broke playing the market. He went to work for General Motors and was earning $35,000 a year as assistant treasurer when he left, in 1929, to become financial adviser to the late John J. Raskob, then top financial man at Du Pont. When Young advised Raskob that the bull market was going...