Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours later, Murray and his eleven aides emerged. This time Murray made his meaning quite clear. To reporters he said: "If by late Saturday night the companies have not agreed to 4? for insurance and 6? for pensions on a noncontributory basis, the mills will go down. I can say that flatly." Steel operators had no comment. Ching, still hopeful, looked forward to another meeting the next...
...Sunday the BBC repeated a solemn announcement that "the Right Honorable Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer," would have something important to say at 9:15 that evening. When the hour came, Sir Stafford, in clipped, clear accents, spoke into a microphone at No. 10 Downing Street: "Good evening. I don't think I need tell you that I've just got back from the United States, where I have spent the last fortnight with the Foreign Secretary trying to work out, with our Canadian and American friends, some solution to a very serious problem...
...entertained Rajk. The Yugoslav Communist led the Hungarian into a small room. They had several glasses of slivovitz, and then Rankovich told Rajk that Tito planned to overthrow Hungary's Communist-dominated government because it was loyal to> Stalin. Rankovich asked Rajk's help. To make it clear that a refusal would be inadvisable, Rankovich drew a paper from his pocket; it was a photostat of the paper Rajk had signed...
Important Product. At Father O'Hara's first post in Portland, Ore. it became clear that he liked to plow new ground in the Lordls vineyard. In 1913, when such causes were far from popular, he took the lead in pushing a minimum wage law through the Oregon legislature- one of the first com pulsory wage laws in the U.S. But perhaps his dearest concern of all, as both priest and bishop, is in developing his church in rural areas...
...Criminal Mind. In Clearwater, Fla., 14 green flags stolen from the Clear-water Country Club last Christmas were returned with a note: "Sorry but we can't find any use for these." In Wichita Falls, Tex., F. D. Clark reported the disappearance of a 30-ft. telephone pole from Pocahontas Street. In New Brunswick, N.J., Kenneth Bergen's stolen sport jacket and two pairs of slacks were returned with a note: "Too small...