Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palestine, while a new wave of bombings and reprisals took the lives of five Arabs and three Jews, the Palestine Post proposed bitterly that all the world's Jews abandon the man-locked land, take to living in ships on the unpeopled...
Ever since Munich Blum has been plumping for French rearmament, strengthening of the Franco-Soviet Pact, a united front against aggressors. He has supported Premier Daladier's foreign policy since that policy edged away from appeasement, even traveled to London to persuade the Labor Party to abandon its traditional fight against conscription...
...House, the committee urged the development of locally administered systems of medical care for the indigent, suggested that only States "in actual heed" be given Federal grants to help their indigents. Moreover, the Committee insisted that States give their "medical indigents" cash benefits to pay doctors' bills, and abandon the custom of paying doctors through relief agencies. This would preserve for physicians the privilege of adjusting the size of their bills...
...fill rush orders from Japan and Russia, United bought a creaky mill at Wooster, Ohio at a bargain price, was all set to abandon it this year when Shibaura Engineering Co., Japan's largest electrical manufacturer, decided to build a rolling mill machinery subsidiary. Hard-headed George Ladd promptly sold them the Wooster mill and last week he announced that it was being shipped, lock, stock & barrel from Wooster to Yokohama, Japan where it will be operated by Shibaura-United, capitalized at 16,000,000 yen ($4,000,000) and 49% owned by United...
...country is no more ready to abandon the undistributed profits tax than it is to revive the practice of incorporating yachts...