Word: recessed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours' notice, Australia prepared a rousing reception. Sydney schools were dismissed. At Canberra Parliament declared a recess and Government officials boarded special trains for Sydney. To lonely Australians, lost in the desolate reaches of the Pacific, it was as if a long-expected ally had arrived at last. Streets were jammed as the sailors went ashore, marched through tons of streamers, scraps of paper and confetti to the Town Hall. Girls leaned out of windows, screaming a hysterical welcome. Autograph hunters besieged the grinning...
...auctioning off the track's fixtures and equipment, many a nostalgic fan was on hand. For an hour and a half a red-faced auctioneer knocked down $2,000 worth of chairs, tables, other track paraphernalia. Suddenly he declared a recess. After a long wait he returned to tell the crowd that the auction was off, someone had taken an option on the track...
When architect James W. McLaughlin in the afternoon session involved the court in a maze of contradictory figures and dates, Judge Williams was forced to recess the case until this morning...
Awaiting the Dunn report, the steel-capacity battle took a recess. Meanwhile, on another front, the New Deal and steelmen worked hand in hand. To Baltimore went 500 scrap dealers for their annual convention last week. When they gathered, the price of No. 1 steel scrap was $23.50 a ton, and heading up. Up rose Price Commissioner Leon Henderson, addressed the scrapmen like a Dutch uncle. Said he, referring to his deal with the scrapmen last fall: "The Government didn't ask for a written guarantee. We went away from the meeting with the feeling that we would...
...jury thought differently. In short order they found him guilty on 17 counts of mail fraud, spent the rest of the 25-hour recess in clearing his lawyers, Charles M. Travis and Garrett A. Brownback, of being accomplices. As Foreman Houston A. Hiers returned the verdict, Hopson's moans & groans broke out afresh. He faced at least five long years in federal prison, plus a $1,000 fine...