Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Police officials say that the campaign is designed to clear the way for fire trucks in cases of early morning alarms. If this were the purpose, the drive would be completely justified. But the Cambridge fire chief denies this is the reason. Fire engines can pass through all streets where legal parking space is used, at any time--day or night. If they couldn't of course, then city officials would be hazarding the lives and property of their citizens for the sake of the small change from parking meters. Snow removal in the winter requires streets to be clear...
...case the point isn't clear, here are a few headlines selected from one issue of one paper...
...Gypsy's number, CBS got the cinder out of its eye, and the rest of the show (including a parody striptease by Bob Hope) was perfectly clear...
This week, after many fat and prosperous years, the October FORTUNE appeared in a new format and with a new assignment. "FORTUNE is no longer concerned, uniquely, with Civilization-as-a-whole," said the editorial directive that blue-printed this conversion. "FORTUNE has its own clear mission ... to assist in the successful development of American business enterprise at home and abroad...
Sirens in Boston. The National League race, too, had been a thriller for most of the summer, but by contrast it was winding up as quietly as a Quaker meeting. For a fortnight it had been clear (to all but bitter-enders) that Billy Southworth's Boston Braves were too far ahead to be caught. This week the Braves clinched it -their first pennant since 1914. Boston's Acting Mayor Tom Hannon called for the blowing of sirens all over town...