Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Douglas MacArthur usually sloughs off Soviet gibes at his occupation policies with silent, five-starred disdain. Last week he broke with custom, made a sharp reply to the latest official Russian blast against him-a letter from Lieut. General Kuzma N. Derevyanko, Soviet member of the Allied Council for Japan...
Last week the subject of Yemenite wives broke into a drowsy committee meeting of Tel Aviv's Knesset (Parliament). Up for study was a bill fixing legislative salaries. One committeeman questioned the $45 monthly allotted for The wife of each Knesset member. What about bounties for the extra wives of Moslem representatives...
Last month, the News broke Petit's exposé under Page One headlines: RACKETS THRIVE WITHOUT FEAR; WHO GETS THE PAYOFFS? Don Petit's story was detailed enough to make even blasé Miamians take notice. It listed the addresses and telephone numbers of bookie joints, houses of prostitution and numbers-game headquarters. And it flatly charged that these rackets were operating with the connivance of the Miami police, who were paid off with "ice money," i.e., graft...
...orders (1,236,840 shares) struck the already ailing market its worst blow of the year. Out of 1,084 issues traded, 877 went down, breaking anywhere from ⅛ to 5 points. U.S. Steel sank to its lowest price in two years. The Dow-Jones average of industrial stocks broke 3.17 points. Next day it went on down to 166.53, the lowest since March...
...true, that spelled a revolution of another kind for the British-French-Dutch rubber plantations in the Far East. It was significant last week,' that, as Copolymer began full production, the price of natural rubber, which was 25? a Ib. in New York last August, broke ¹¼ to 16¼? a Ib., the lowest in two years...