Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirens wailed the alarm; ushers, as formally dressed as their French colleagues, charged into the fray, tail coats flying. The Communists seized chairs, broke them up into clubs. Senators doubled up as fists and feet hit their stomachs...
...week's end, one day after settlement of the Gould case, Shanghai's Americans had a bigger & better lock-in on their hands. A month-old labor dispute between the U.S. consulate and 800 former U.S. Navy workers (TIME, July 18) broke out afresh. More than 100 Chinese and Sikh workers infiltrated the consulate building and took over the gates. They demanded 6½ months wages plus severance pay. Acting Consul General Walter P. McConaughy and two other officials were locked in. The workers threatened to bring in their entire force of 800, complete with wives & children...
...first turn, Jockey Dave Gorman moved Air Lift up on the outside from fifth to third. He was gaining on the leaders, when he broke stride, began to weave. A watcher near the rail had heard something that sounded like a pistol shot. Jockey Gorman slowed the colt down and slipped off. When he saw blood running from Air Lift's left foreleg, Gorman wept...
...organizers (he directed the postwar "Operation Dixie" to organize Southern labor), Bittner was president of a Mine Workers' local at 16, Pitched his wagon to the John L. Lewis star, but chose to stay as Phil Murray's lieutenant in the Steelworkers when Lewis' Mine Workers broke with C.I.O...
After lunch Charles Luckman gave a personal demonstration of his thesis. Eight miles east of downtown Los Angeles, armed with a silver-plated shovel, he broke ground for a new $25 million soap and food products plant. Lever Bros., he said, would spend another $30 million on expansion and modernization elsewhere. That would make a total bet of $55 million that the jabber-jitterers were talking jabberwocky...