Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boner. In Vancouver, Wash., Leon Hutcheson, in bed with a broken leg, tried to move it, placed his good leg under the heavy cast, used it as a lever, broke...
After 44 minutes she broke the surface again. Harry Truman had something to show for his temerity: a membership in the Royal Order of Deep Dunkers...
Both the indoor fog and the outdoor cloud, explained Schaefer, were "supercooled"; their tiny droplets, though well below the freezing point, were liquid water, not ice. They wanted to freeze, but for some reason could not. The dry-ice pellets broke the deadlock. "An almost infinite number" of submicroscopic "ice seeds" formed near their surface. These grew into snowflakes at the expense of the water droplets. The supercooled cloud precipitated...
...years, the Ford Motor Co. has by tradition been closemouthed about its profits & losses. Last week, before the Jefferson City, Mo. Chamber of Commerce, Ford's executive vice president, Ernest Robert Breech, broke with tradition. He announced that Ford's loss for the first nine months of 1946 was a whopping $51,600,000 (if this figure still stands at year's end, tax rebates would cut this down to $32,900,000). Reasons: wage increases, shortages, suppliers' strikes...
...dawn broke cheerlessly for both sides. The 1,400 striking pilots, out-of-pocket $850,000 in lost wages, had not yet won their fight for more pay for flying four-motored Constellations and Skymasters (TIME, Oct. 28). A three-man arbitration board would review the whole issue. T.W.A., out $7,000,000 in flying revenue, had nearly ground-looped. Growled Millionaire Howard Hughes, T.W.A.'s majority stockholder: "It will take a year to recover, and longer before T.W.A. can employ as many people again. . . . T.W.A. had lost $8,000,000 during 1946 before the strike. . . . You cannot destroy...