Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit and New York, business has picked up. One reason was that Detroit's car makers sent representatives around the country, urging dealers to get rid of their huge stocks at any cost. Those who took the advice often took heavy losses, but they cleared out old cars, freed tied-up cash, and put their dealerships on a sound basis. To dramatize the campaign, the Metropolitan Chevrolet Dealers of Detroit organized a "Funeral Parade" of jalopies, towed 35 old cars through the streets and burned them...
Business Is Business. In Mons, Belgium, arrested for selling his wife Anna, his three children, his household furnishings and his house to Jiacomo Martina for 24,000 francs ($480), Emilio Rondoti was freed by the local judge, but ordered to pay court costs...
...batteries roared a royal 21-gun salute. On the cruiser's fantail, beneath the old imperial colors,* lay two oak coffins. They contained the remains of Princess Isabel of Braganza and her French consort, Gaston Count d'Eu. Brazil was honoring a national heroine, the princess who freed the slaves...
...regent for her absent father, Emperor Dom Pedro II. In ten days, after she had reformed the cabinet, she pushed the emancipation bill through the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Commoners and courtiers joined in celebration, but the princess' ousted prime minister sardonically predicted: "She has freed a people, but she has lost a throne...
Isabel's humanitarian act, bitterly opposed by conservative coffee and sugar planters, soon brought on a disastrous economic crisis. Crops rotted in the fields as freed slaves abandoned the fazendas. Within a year the crowded cities faced famine, and the army deposed the royal family. Princess Isabel died at her husband's chateau in France...