Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clear cool afternoon, Tuesday, August 4, 1914, a grave, spare, rather homely North Carolinian entered the courtyard before the massive grey British Foreign Office on Downing Street. He turned to the right, passed the guards, walked down a broad ornate corridor, passed through a large oak door into a spacious room. Its windows looked out on the tranquil lake and lawn and trees of St. James's Park. The clocks of London struck three...
August 25. In London Great Britain, to make her meaning clear, signed a treaty with Poland making official her ironclad promise of military aid to Poland. In Berlin Hitler sent for the British and French Ambassadors. To Sir Nevile he said (as quoted by the British White Paper from Sir Nevile's notes): "Poland's actual provocations have become intolerable. . . . War between England and Germany could at best bring some profit to Germany but none at all to England. The F then also be ready to accept a reasonable limitation of armaments...
...cost setup, with Correspondent John Steele the only staff man abroad, Chicago Tribune's Sigrid Schultz on retainer in Berlin, Waverly Root in Paris, English Newsman Patrick Maitland on tap in Warsaw. At home plate virtually the whole team is clear and quick-thinking, war-trained Commentator Raymond Gram Swing, who has been eating, sleeping, reading, listening, broadcasting round the clock in a 24th floor office of WOR on Broadway...
Houston: Docks were clear of cargo, but shipping companies were accepting little future business...
Seattle: Wharves were clear but no bottoms were available at a time when lumber and logs, wheat and flour, canned salmon, apples, should soon be moving. (Apple shippers were grim; Great Britain. Germany, France take all their exports.) It looked as if Seattle's $1,000,000-a-day export trade would be reduced to a trickle...