Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad was returned to him last October, after 42 months of Government operation under seizure. Immediately his union rail employes struck. The line has been strike-bound ever since. George McNear refused to negotiate". He said he would see the railroad and himself go broke first...
McNear, who has been bitterly fighting the unions almost continuously since he bought the line in 1926, was at lunch in Peoria's Creve Coeur Club when the shooting broke out. Afterward he insisted that the strikers had fired first; the guards in self-defense. Next day he took...
...meter leap at Dartmouth assures Dick Rich of a steady job with the jumping contingent, while Wendy Smith showed unmistakable aptitude for cross country running, when his bindings broke in the middle of the race last Sunday, by crossing the finish line with his skis tied on to his long underwear...
...than 150 intriguing tales of intrigue (sometimes four at once to four stenographers) ; at St.-Peter-Port, on Guernsey. Acrawl with femmes fatales and rifled dispatch cases, "Opp's" novels were only more frequently fraught with fantastics than his life: he made poker legal in England, twice almost broke the bank at Monte Carlo, once captured a German...
...Revolution came sooner and was won more easily than anybody expected. Before hay harvest, Farmer Jones got drunk for two days. Nobody milked the cows or fed the animals. At last the frenzied creatures broke into the feed room. When Jones and his men arrived with whips, the animals turned on them and chased them off the farm...