Word: cancellable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end a red-faced A.P. asked a red-faced War Department to cancel Roberts' correspondent status. The War Department obliged. Roberts will be brought home. Nobody would bring the field censors home. Nobody could bring the War Department home...
...months ago the Erie Railroad signed a private bond-selling deal with the potent Wall Street underwriters, Morgan, Stanley & Co. (TIME, Feb. 15). Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission forced Erie to cancel the contract, and to open bidding to all comers. Thus the ICC joined hands with the SEC and the Fed eral Power Commission, both of which four years ago ordered competitive bidding on the sale of utility bonds. But the Commission's action meant more: it set tled for a time Wall Street's old fight over private v. public bond sales...
...contrary to this theory. Even when the hospital restored his egg and wine diet, in an effort to bring his rash into full flower again, his cancer progressed. One possible explanation: perhaps the bacteria of his urinary tract infection were making biotin, sending enough into his blood to cancel stupendous quantities of avidin and feed the cancer besides...
Partially as a result of the unfortunate impression Beardsley Ruml created in Congress by trying to sell himself and Macy's as riders to his plan, Pay-as-you-earn advocates had agreed on the modified Carlson Bill. This bill would cancel all 1942 income payments, except by those persons receiving over $20,000 a year who made more in 1942 than they will in 1943. These persons will pay taxes on the year of highest income, and payment on the other will be cancelled...
Last week WPB again began to cancel contracts-with a difference. This time WPB knew what it wanted and where it was going: the shifts were designed to balance the program, to smooth the flow of parts into finished armaments, to speed the offensive weapons the U.S. needs for the new kind of war it is fighting...