Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Raising its ugly head last week, avarice threw a bad scare into the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. The South reported to Washington that cotton planters, hungrily watching their product go to 10? per Ib. for the first time in two years, had agreed to destroy less than 6,000,000 acres of their current crop under the Domestic Allotment Plan. The Administration wanted 10,000,000 acres (estimated at 25% of the total yield) plowed under or left unplucked, for which it was prepared to pay "benefits" to be collected from a cotton processing tax as yet officially unannounced...
...James P. Warburg entered the room in which Mr. Hull was telephoning, a meaning jerk of the Secretary of State's head caused him hastily to withdraw. Tension meanwhile was slackening. "I will lunch with the U. S. Delegation tomorrow," said French Finance Minister Bonnet. "We must not destroy all signs of confidence...
...Reform in issuing securities is advisable but new laws should take care not to destroy the means by which industry obtains long-term capital. If the machinery for floating capital issues is destroyed industry will not be able to repay its temporary loans, more bank failures will follow...
...polliwogs. He, Christopher William Coates, had also gone into the Army instead of to college, but had kept up his study of fish during the after years in which he was earning a living in the radio business. The discovery set Fishman Coates to thinking. If the phage destroyed bacteria in aquarium water. why shouldn't it destroy them in human infections...
...Germany would be ready without further ado to dissolve its whole military establishment and destroy the scanty remnant of arms left it if neighboring nations unreservedly do the same. . . . Germany is in the main agreed to accept a transitional period of five years for the establishment of its national security, in the expectation that after this period Germany's real equalization with other nations will occur. . . . The German Government sees in the English plan a possible basis for solution of this question...