Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...respectable British family of Cheetham Hill, Manchester. She was also, like the late, infamous William Joyce, a member of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Like Joyce, Margot had a falling out with Sir Oswald, and when Joyce departed for Germany a few days before war broke out, she sailed with him to become his second wife. His first, a Glaswegian, later identified Joyce as Hitler's Haw Haw. Margot became Lady...
...Nicaragua, there was no sign yet that Somoza had lost his ability to out-trick the slow-witted opposition. He had ample reason to hang on. Even if the Government was broke, Somoza enterprises were booming. Public-works employes kept up the dictator's cattle ranches. The National Railway had just built him an ice plant. His latest haul: an $85,000 profit on surplus goods from the U.S. Navy's [former] Corinto base...
...labor bosses listened noncommittally to Bowles. They knew that they could never hold their men if prices broke through. They also knew that there was many a political crevasse between a labor pledge and a Congressional fulfillment. Besides, their minds were occupied with an immediate worry. The Hobbs anti-racketeering bill, already approved by the House and long dormant in committee, was suddenly brought before the Senate one day last week and swiftly passed without debate or record vote. The bill provides fines up to $10,000 and prison terms up to 20 years for labor union representatives or others...
...dread African Goums marched into the Place de la Concorde, ending the great Resistance Day parade, the unity that the Resistance had brought France seemed to falter. Young hotheads started yelling: "Vive De Gaulle! De Gaulle to power!" A Parisian moblet caught the fever, broke police lines. The flics-recalling fatal rightist riots on the same spot in 1934-laid about blindly with their iron-buttoned capes and arrested a handful of battered demonstrators. Other hotheads besieged Communist headquarters, burned...
Deep in the oak and pine timberlands of the Southwest, a headsaw whined through the soft June night. Now & again the hooting of horned owls broke into the steady cough of the gasoline engine, the dull banging of the sawmill carriage, the slap, slap of cut slabs. At dawn, the fireflies and the old crew left the sawmill and the day gang took over...