Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, Lorenzo Winslow, White House architect and historian, snorted. The land on which the White House was built, said he, was purchased by the U.S. Government about 1790 from one David Burns. Its title is free & clear. Nevertheless, a representative for the Spanish families will shortly depart for Washington with a load of aged document, to hire a lawyer and put in a claim...
Princess Margaret, constantly ogled by crowds, reporters and detectives on her trip to Italy, was nonetheless boosting Anglo-Italian relations. "Her eyes," burbled a stricken newsman, "look ahead. They are the most beautiful things she has brought to Naples, grey and very tender, clear as the air of Capri...
...start, bush-haired Harold Walter Stoke made himself quite clear. He woulri leave the presidency of the middle-sized University of New Hampshire (enrollment: 3,500) and take over big Louisiana State (enrollment: 10,000) on one condition: that he have full authority to run L.S.U. "without political or other interference." For the university which had been one of Huey Long's pet projects ("[I'm] the Chief Thief for L.S.U.!"), it was a tall order. But it was just what the L.S.U. Board of Supervisors had in mind. For months during 1947, the 14 supervisors, most...
Such price-cutting near the peak of summer buying had not been heard of in years. But sales were still under last year's. Retailers were hastily trying to clear out old merchandise, notably textiles, as new, lower-priced dresses reflecting the wholesale price cuts of the past few months came in. For the first time in seven years, women could buy neat, fashionable dresses for less than...
...last obstacle. It had on hand 185,000 watches, enough to satisfy the market for some time, and block the new line Waltham wanted to bring out. Last week Waltham found a quick way to get rid of them. It made a deal with the Associated Merchandising Corp. to clear out all the watches it could at half-price through A.M.C.'s 24 retail outlets...