Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the news broke that escaped Russian flier Anatoly Barsov was returning to the Soviet Union, Reporter Anatole Visson, of our Washington bureau, headed for the hotel where Barsov had stayed during his last days in the U.S. Visson, who was born in Russia and speaks five other languages besides Russian, found two notebooks among Barsov's effects. Visson translated the diary that night, gaining a clean newsbeat for TIME, then turned the notebooks over to the State Department...
Three years ago Charles J. Gray was out of a job and nearly broke when he began to drive a taxi in a suburb of Flint, Mich. For a while he had some rough going, but now he owns the North End Cab Co., with six taxis and an office. A few weeks ago 46-year-old Cabman Gray decided it was time to do something he had been thinking about for a long time. He called up the six churches in his area (five Protestant and one Roman Catholic) and told them he would give free cab rides...
...feast-day specials from eggs and milk and butter? . . . I once tried to paint a picture, but the colors ran and the perspective was poor. I tried to write music, but even the dog howled to hear it. I tried to weave a piece of cloth, but the warp broke and the wool tangled. So I have resolved to stick to my cooking and beat my way to Heaven...
Greetings from the Stork. When war broke out, Lisa and Fernand came to the U.S. Soon after her first pictures appeared in U.S. magazines, smitten strangers sent her presents, including a bottle of champagne from Stork Club Impresario Sherman Billingsley, whom she has never met. She recalls, "I thought: what a strange country this is. Maybe I'd better go home now." Today, Lisa works an average of 20 hours a week, half on advertising and half on magazine fashion illustrations, which pay less than advertising pictures ($12.50-$15) but carry prestige. Lisa averages about $500 a week, could...
Greenfield went broke, but he seemed to get along just as well without money. He stayed on as chairman of his most potent company, Bankers Securities Corp., and came back fast. Through Securities Corp. he moved into control of City Stores, Loft Candy Corp., New York's Hearn Department Stores, Inc. retail chain, and a big minority interest in Walter Hoving's Hoving Corp. (Bonwit Teller, John David, Anson-Jones). Still one of the biggest U.S. real-estate operators and hotel owners, he was the prime mover in luring the 1948 Republican and Democratic conventions to Philadelphia...