Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Start of a New. In the first 100 days of the strike, union and management representatives met only three times. The third session, over a month ago, broke up in five minutes. This week, after the intervention of Governor Raymond E. Baldwin, they will try a fourth. But a state fact-finding board gloomily reported...
...mighty hunter slaying stage Indians and popping glass balls with a pistol (loaded with bird shot) were ready to believe anything about him. For two decades Bill crossed and recrossed the U.S., beaming when women swooned at his bearded beauty. When he died in Denver in 1917 he was broke and partly bald, but his legend was unabashed...
Stranger Here Myself. An immigrant (from Radna, Rumania), short, bustling, bespectacled Theodore Andrica (rhymes with Eureka), 45, knows the immigrant's nostalgia for the old country. Broke when he landed in the U.S. in 1921, he worked as an orderly in a Buffalo hospital, was ordained a Russian Orthodox priest in Erie, Pa., changed from cleric to bank clerk, drifted to Cleveland...
...fool." The speaker, naturally, was an Iowa dirt farmer, sounding off last week on the rip-roaring boom in farm lands. He still remembered the World War I boom, in which Iowa land went to $255 an acre-and the bust, when it dropped to $69. So many went broke that in the early 1930's insurance companies held an area equal to eight Iowa counties. But others forgot to remember. Even in Iowa, fat with corn and hogs, a man could not make a long-term profit on land that cost him more than $101 an acre...
Last time, it was after war's end that many farmers had loaded themselves up with the mortgages that broke them. Now the mortgage curve was starting up again, after steadily falling during the war years. But the amount of individual mortgages has increased to an average of 58% of the purchase price; in many cases the mortgage is larger than the value of the land in 1941. Would the farmers again shoulder mortgages to buy more land and equipment, now that manpower and machinery were once more available? No one was sure...