Word: abolishing
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...they have finished. . . . The bus queues are something more than an inconvenience to the public. They add as much as three hours every day to a working day of eight hours. ... By bringing a few hundred men from other tasks to the driving of the London busses, we could abolish the long waiting in queues. We should effect a real conservation of human energy...
Although Direct Credits seems to have largely gone the way of Ham & Eggs and other Utopias, a lot of people have had lessons in Lawson's economics. Fundamentals: abolish the gold standard, interest, "alien" financiers, and give everybody state credit secured by hope. Money would "have no value at all ... merely act as a measure . . . the quantity of it issued will not affect its purchasing power...
Contending that this was the first time in history that a union had attempted to abolish an industry, seven transcription companies SOS'd the Department of Labor. This week the case was certified to the War Labor Board...
...simplify the course credit system, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has voted to abolish all full courses for the duration, A. Chester Hanford, Dean of the College, announced yesterday. Hereafter, virtually all courses in the College will be designated as half courses...
...very kind of them, but I wish Americans would stop sending me parcels of food. Apparently they're all under the impression that we are starving in this country." Meat rationing in Britain he found "fine . . . fine, but it doesn't go far enough. I'd abolish meat altogether. It's true no doubt that beef made Old England what it is-but look what...