Word: demolishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FPHA believes that it can conform to the law, and maybe help ease the housing shortage, by selling the units to private builders who agree to: 1) demolish the units and move them from present sites; 2) use some of the salvaged material for entirely new houses. FPHA will show the method of recovery at a 20-acre "showcase" exhibit to be erected at Silver Springs, Md., in mid-December...
...good will produced by the show is evident in" . . . the University decision to demolish Shepherd Hall. More formality is expected when the Network begins broadcasting from the curb...
Having thus tried to demolish the chief bases of most estimates, Economist Mayer then makes his own estimate. He assumes that there will be no sharp postwar boom or precipitous collapse, that agricultural prices may decline, hourly wages and salaries and corporate profits will remain about the same, that there will be an increase in the number of employed over 1940, but that the income of wage & salary workers will be drastically cut because of the elimination of overtime, the shift to lower-paying jobs, etc. Likewise, the small businessmen and professional men will see their income drop about...
...hereinafters" properly included, in a dazzling display of mnemonics. As a Kentucky Congressman for 14 years, he rose so fast as to threaten the seniority system. His special technique is to arm himself with such a mastery of the facts at issue that he can gently but thoroughly demolish the opposition. A kind, solid and reassuring citizen, he became last week the best and most important new face in the Washington war in many months...
...Chinese. Japanese propaganda de clares that the Allies are not fulfilling their promises of aid, that U.S. forces live like kings while Chinese troops grovel like beggars. Whereas the Japanese economic tactic was once plunder, it is now construction and trade. The Japanese armies lash out, not to demolish the Chinese armies, but to scorch Free Chinese earth, as in the Lake District. There are also appeals to the future: whereas the Allies have promised to give up extraterritoriality after the war, Tojo's government announced that on March 30 Japan would give up concessions in Amoy, Hankow, Soochow...