Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Connersville, Ind., the C.I.O.'s United Electrical Workers threw a picket line around the Rex Manufacturing Co. during a jurisdictional dispute with ari A.F.L. union. When the picketers began keeping office workers out, city officials called for State troops, which quickly broke up the picket line. The U.S. Conciliation Service reported last week that all 1,600 employes are back at work...
Like other Indian leaders, Jinnah denounced the "fratricidal war." But most observers wondered how Jinnah could fail to know what would happen when he called for "direct action." Shortly before the riots broke out, his own news agency (Orient Press) reported that Jinnah, anticipating violence, was sleeping on the floor these nights-to toughen up for a possible sojourn in jail...
...politics absorb Evita. Recently a Russian trade commissioner came to argue the merits of expanded Russo-Argentine trade. The Russian pressed his case but Perón played wary poker. "First of all I am an Argentine," he said, "but second I am an americano." "And besides," Evita broke in, "the Americans have the atomic bomb...
Wishful anti-Perónistas seized on the last remark as proof that he was slipping. Their points: he was having trouble holding his Nationalists, Radicals and Communists together; one of his best-known labor leaders had quarreled with him; his old nationalist tub-thumper, La Tribuna, this week broke with him for getting ready to sign up with...
...like to know how much extra strain an airplane will take. Formerly, they sent a human pilot aloft with instructions to test the plane for the most extreme strains it would get in combat or commercial service. Often, especially in spin tests or pullouts from high-speed dives, something broke or failed to work. Even if the pilot parachuted to safety, neither he nor the plane's smashed instruments could tell the full story of just what happened at the climax...