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...Cleanup. In Bayport, N.Y., Burton J. Downer cleaned out his attic, left some old clothes on the doorstep for the junkman, days later got them back from the laundry with a $9.54 cleaning bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 6, 1946 | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

Britain's diplomatic cleanup man had another vanquished crisis under his belt. Beaming baronially as he deplaned in Amsterdam last week after an 8,900-mile flight from Batavia, hump-nosed, ruddy Lord Inverchapel (Sir Archibald Clark Kerr in his pre-peerage days) gave a thumbnail report on his Indonesian peacemaking excursion. The Indonesians, he said, "really want the Dutch to stay." Indonesian Premier Sjahrir is "wise, cool and reasonable." Modestly he summed up his own efforts-to create an atmosphere in which the Indonesians and The Netherlands Indies Acting Governor General van Mook could get together. "It cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: A Lot of Whiskey | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...final cleanup of his financial mess last year showed that he had swindled the public of $560,000,000 (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARTELS: End of the Match Game | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...Cleanup. In Puente, Calif., burglars broke into H. L. Underwood's house, took everything, including the kitchen sink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 28, 1946 | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...Reported the General's aides: the "cleanup" had already started, camp conditions were already much improved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Hornets' Nest | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

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