Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmers who strained their backs to raise wartime bumper crops when help was scarce went on to bigger & better yields when the help came back. In 1946, crop production broke all records, topping the wartime 1942 peak by 2%, and soaring 26% over the 1923-32 (pre-drought) average...
...recipients, tried to tell Lou how he and the others felt. "Thirteen years ago I made $65 a year on a farm," he said. "Tonight I have more money in my pocket than I know what to do with, and. . . ." At this point Joe's voice broke, but Lou Reese knew how he felt...
...retrospect, Ambassador Ala seemed U.N.'s first hero for his courageous fight last spring. But Gavam had won the other half of Persia's battle by repressive measures against the Tudeh Party. First Gavam broke last July's bloody strike of Tudeh-led Abadan oil workers. In mid-October, he kicked three Tudeh men out of his Cabinet, then muzzled the Tudeh press. Result : an independent, but not a very democratic, Persia...
...Soviet Russia, Austria's spanking new diplomatic mission to Moscow, consisting of slim, distinguished Minister Karl Waldbrunner, Counselor Karl Braunias and a female secretary, has been in even worse case, homeless and flat broke. Reason: the Russians would not fix a legal rate for converting their schillings into rubles. The diplomats had to wash their own socks and underwear. Never sure where their next meal was coming from, they scurried from one hotel to another as bills came due. On top of it all the secretary turned out to have been pregnant when she left Vienna; after she went...
...loan business. With a sense of deep frustration, he plunges into his small-town rut, half-angrily marries the girl (Donna Reed), battles the villainous local banker (Lionel Barrymore), befriends his fellow men, shoulders the whole town's troubles. When he winds up, despite all his do-gooding, broke and disgraced, he seriously considers throwing his "useless" life into the river...