Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York newspapers last week broke out in a rash of three-quarter-page fund-raising advertisements extolling the beauties and virtues of the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidjan in Soviet Siberia. The voice was the voice of California chambers of commerce, but the hands were the hands of Russia...
...Earl of Halifax, some 60 years away from childhood, came down with a childish illness at just the wrong time. Soon after Winston Churchill arrived for a stay, the Ambassador broke out with chicken pox. Churchill crossed his fingers...
Everywhere student families played house in gyms, attics and cellars (40% of the ex-G.I.s were married). Princeton broke a 200-year-old tradition, let students' wives live on the campus. Colgate admitted its first four coeds. Harvard was besieged by 325 veterans a day. Illinois, Ohio State and Purdue turned down out-of-state applicants. Rutgers wrestled with a freshman class larger than the three upper classes combined. Enrollment at Michigan (13,714) was the biggest in its 109-year history...
Three years ago a young book-publishing clerk named George Braziller decided to go into business for himself. He was broke. But he knew of a business where he would not need much money. So he borrowed $25 and started a book club, the Book Find Club...
...extended his jobbing business. When shippers' loans to growers started running as high as $4,000 an acre during the land boom following World War I, Di Giorgio limited loans to $350 an acre. Others scrambled for business he lost. When the boom collapsed, most of them went broke...