Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election. In his speech, Mr. Straus stressed that all USHA work goes to private contractors. It is thus at the mercy of whatever restrictive influences may be exerted on Housing by makers and distributors of materials, by building contractors, by building trades unions. It was to clear the road for a big industrial push behind Housing that the Temporary National Economic ("Monopoly") Committee held hearings all last fortnight to search for such restrictive influences...
...heels of this solution came an Italian order for all other foreigners, tourist or resident, to clear out of Bolzano Province immediately. Hardest hit by this precipitate measure were about 300 Swiss, many of whom operate the resort hotels in the district...
...today. He made good tools, ceremoniously buried his dead, found shelter by intrepidly evicting bears from their caves. Near the close of the Glacial Age he was replaced by more modern types of men, who apparently feasted on Neanderthal carcasses. But while he lasted, as the Asiatic find made clear last week, Neanderthal Man got around...
...m.p.h. in some places, 2 m.p.h. in others. But Auctioneer Giles had floated only two miles out of the 288 because it was too difficult to keep his body stiff. He was fed sugar cubes, fruit juices and lettuce sandwiches every four hours, had managed to steer clear of hazards until he reached Buffalo Rapids, 50 miles from home, where he was catapulted into the air, bounced off rocks and tree stumps and landed in a terrifying whirlpool. But as he crawled out at Glendive he had crawled into the record books. The longest fresh-water swim on record...
...great worry in Sonja Henie's life is that she will kill or maim herself at her very dangerous profession. To keep the ice clear of objects that might send her arsy-versy when she is traveling at 35 m.p.h., her troupe is forbidden to wear hairpins, the electrical superstructure over the rink is scrupulously vacuumed. Among Sonja's skating shoes, of white calf lined with chamois which cost her $45 a pair, and her skates, which are made by John E. Strauss of St. Paul, Minn, (sometimes described as "the master skate man of the world...