Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...views of Republican leaders." But in other fields of foreign affairs, "there has been no consultation at all with the Republican leadership." These fields, said Dewey, included the Greek-Turkish policy, the Potsdam agreements, Palestine, and "the entire China policy, or lack of one." Foreign policy, he made clear, was going to be a major target in the campaign...
Shortly before midnight I accompanied Colonel Hyland on a mission to clear the road from the city for incoming aid. With the heat of the street scorching the soles of our feet and smoke bringing tears to our eyes, we walked through the bright red city. We passed Japanese firemen trying to pump water from the palace moat, the only remaining source in the whole city. After the B-29s, people had taken refuge in the waters of the moat, hoping to escape the flames; hundreds of bodies had been found there. The people of Fukui say that tonight...
...rises from a maze of flowing springs and meanders 22 miles across a meadow south of the Sawtooth Mountains. Its rainbows grow so big (up to a record twelve pounds) because of an abundance of freshwater shrimp for them to feed on. Its channels are clear and shallow; a shadow cast across the water is enough warning for its wary rainbows...
...point system, the important fact was that cement delivered to any given job was sold at a uniform price, no matter who manufactured it. To the court this was collusion, and a wicked practice that must be stopped forthwith. However sound the decision, it did not make things crystal clear. Just a week later, in another Big Business case, the Court upheld an FTC order which seemed to make the appearance of collusion inescapable...
...Chairman Walter C. Ploeser had slipped in an amendment to the draft bill. Neither the committee's colleagues in the House & Senate, nor the White House, noted the real meaning of the amendment. Only after President Truman signed the draft bill last week did the fact come fully clear: Congress had unwittingly provided for the broadest draft of U.S. industry in peacetime history...