Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right. Next day, C.I.O. President Phil Murray sang out lustily because any controls had been dropped. Industry's top stentor, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President William K. Jackson, yelled because any had been kept. Lesser fry-packers, cattle and grocery men, the pro-and anti-control press, etc.-broke out in a contagion of argument. Last of all, the consumer took up the battle with violent yes and no messages to the Board...
...days of this and the court decided Mrs. Malcolmson had not misused any of the $20,000 Pappy had sent her to keep in trust for his three children by a previous marriage. Lucy Malcolmson broke into tears, switched to a joyous laugh. Gathering up his honey-haired new wife, ex-movie actress Frances Baker, Pappy limped glumly past Lucy, muttered, "Congratulations." Said Mrs. Boyington: "I hope you enjoyed the money." Said Lucy: "Sorry it had to happen...
...last Friday's class championship races was the 155 event. This race was touted by Dennison and Ed Callanan '41, clerk of the course, to be the show-pice of the meet; and it was. Both Day and Bill Dowd, who followed less than a boat length behind, broke the standing record for the event...
...last look at all the shops, the shoe-shine boys, and the Yard buildings. He pictured himself coming back here, in a few years perhaps. Growing old while this place never changed. He pictured himself slightly paunchy, standing around the punchbowl at a reunion in fifteen years. Finally, Vag broke into Harvard Square and darted across to the kiosk. He noticed the new sign, "Subway to All Points." Well, that's where he was going...
Mount Wilson* was not always worth that much. In 1890 a syndicate of California hotelmen bought 1,500 acres of peak timberland for $4,500. But the small hotel they built burned down and the syndicate broke...