Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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West from Cleveland, at 6,000 feet, in the bright, clear air just above an alabaster overcast, boomed United Air Lines Trip 21, bound for Chicago with 13 passengers, a crew of three. Over Lansing, Ill. (18 miles southeast of Chicago), handsome Captain Phil Scott, onetime University of Minnesota hockey captain, heard the hum of the Chicago beam in his earphones. By that time it was dark. Passengers and crew had seen the unforgettable sight of the setting sun turning the gleaming white cloud layer to a glory of gold. Now the stars were out, the cloud layer black...
Senator Schwartz, hastily: "That is not necessary. That is clear enough. You need not amplify that...
...Commission, 52 (mostly tankers) for private firms. This is enough orders to keep their 83 ways busy more than a year, even if all the ways are used without interruption. Last week, when representatives of the industry met in Washington with Defense Commission experts and labor men, it became clear that interruptions were occurring. The cause: shortage of skilled workmen...
...Students spending a substantial part of their vacation in Canada or elsewhere outside the United States. A permit is absolutely necessary to avoid a clear violation...
...American people are not unthinking pacifists. They are willing to fight for causes which seem to justify fighting. But it is necessary that the justification be clear and cogent and consistent with American interests. We recognize that there must be a new order of some kind after this war. But the kind of new order for which Americans may be expected to fight is one which can rest on the consent of the peoples who may be concerned. A new balance of power, which can be maintained only by a constant threat of forcible intervention in Europe...