Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weeks of proclamation and polemic had made the positions of both sides of the dispute clear. Labor Leader Leon Jouhaux had declared that the decree laws were "unacceptable as written." Particularly unacceptable to Leader Jouhaux was the decree extending the work week from 40 to 45 hours in war industries. French labor had won the 40-hour week from Leon Blum's Popular Front Government. Leader Jouhaux could not afford to lose it, even in one group of industries, without a fight...
...number of manuscripts formerly used by the children of the Tsars. Old and very rare copies are displayed of such well-known works as "The Adventures of Baron Mundhausen," "Pinocchio," and "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." By carefully examining all the cases, one can gain an unusually clear impression of young people's tastes for literature during many centuries...
...after spending six months in Hollywood doing nothing, Pascal left in disgust. He arrived in London and out of a clear sky called Playwright Shaw, whom he had never met. Pascal said he wanted to produce Shaw's plays...
Last week, without a splurge of advertising (not in character), the store began selling out its $287,000 stock-on-hand at 20% reduction. Mr. Charles thought three weeks would clear the shelves; $7,000 worth of recently-ordered plum pudding worries him not at all. He has a customer for the name, the goodwill, the futures contracts, the trademark and the trucks...
...then secretary to a firm of literary dentists, who introduce her to their London intellectual set. When she writes about the way sunlight falls across a room, about the mannerisms of the minor characters who drift in & out of the plotless, amorphous story, Dorothy Richardson is both eloquent and clear. But writing about Miriam's tormented relations with men, who repel and fascinate her, she is so obscure that the reader is left guessing. In the four volumes of Pilgrimage sex never once rears its ugly little head. Every critical experience in Miriam's life occurs off stage...