Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bully. In Bury, England, a tradition-minded bull crashed into a teashop, scattered terrified patrons, broke all the china...
...week's end, owners, A.F.L. and N.M.U. eyed each other, fought, threatened, broke off negotiations. N.M.U., to show how tough it was, even yanked its men off security watches aboard the struck ships, leaving them and their cargoes unprotected from fire, storm, accident or decay. Owners pleaded for the Coast Guard...
...picking their sponsors, Government contractors had a crush on the wives of Washington bigwigs. Mrs. James F. Byrnes broke two bottles and received a $349.90 gold brooch and a $1,820.12 tray. Mrs. Claude Pepper's record of six christenings was second only to the eight splashed up by California's first lady, Mrs. Earl Warren. Mrs. Henry Wallace, Mrs. Arthur Vandenberg and the wife of economy-minded Comptroller General Lindsay Warren all took remunerative whacks. A $1,000 watch was presented to Mrs. Brehon B. Somervell, wife of the wartime Chief of the Army Service Forces...
Robertson, closemouthed, stoop-shouldered and almost bald, shies away from the press. He asked for the London job. He was tired from wartime chores, and broke. (His salary will remain the same but his living allowance will be much greater...
...furious jungle war were finding peace a reluctant prize. Last year the "Republic" of Viet Nam (almost half the size of France), formerly part of French Indo-China, waged a fierce minor struggle for independence from France. At Fontainebleau last week, the French-Viet Nam peace conference broke wide open, seriously endangering France's already tottering colonial policy. Chiefly responsible was Viet Nam's self-styled "President" Ho Chin Minh...