Word: demolishment
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...station found its sound-proof walls crumbling about its ears, as the University announced plans to demolish Shepard Hall. When announcers thought about the creaky floors and the local cat who crept into the studios to purr insignificantly into the microphone, they thought moving out into new quarters might be a good idea. When the business staff began adding up the costs and subtracting from the Network's bank balance, they wondered how lucky they were after all. On May 11, 1945, WHCN vacated its Holyoke Street offices in time to save its equipment from the wreckers. The University made...
Soule warned of an impending, economic crisis which could demolish the American liberal tradition and force other democratic nations dependent on America, to turn to authoritarian governments in their search for security...
...land in question, the owner is not entitled to compensation by the Government. Any compensation he may get comes to him not as a vested right but as a favor from an indulgent government. Only if the Government takes land for planned use or compels a property owner to demolish buildings or otherwise alter the use of his property in ways which lessen its current value is compensation granted as a matter of right-and then 'only in amounts determined by the Government...
...paunchy idea man who likes flamboyant ties and flamboyant schemes, Bill Zeckendorf had cornered a section of grimy tenements, abattoirs and garages on Manhattan's East Side. He had planned to demolish them, raise in their place a dream city of Euclidean skyscraper hotels and office buildings (TIME, Oct. 14). But a fortnight ago he approached New York's William O'Dwyer with the idea of selling the whole caboodle to U.N. instead...
...publishers spread pornographic literature. It is also true that the Jews are committing frauds, practicing usury and dealing in white slavery. . . . One does well to prefer his own kind in commercial dealings, to avoid Jewish Stores and Jewish stalls in the markets, but it is not permissible to demolish Jewish businesses...