Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second, and more important, difficulty is that of causing fluctuations in the quantity of demand deposits to be even more violent than in the past. The banks create deposits when they make loans or buy bonds; but equally or more important, they destroy deposits when they contract loans or sell bonds. We all know the disastrous effects, on employment and output, of a contraction of the money supply...
Judge William J. Campbell set January 22 for the electrocution of the men, who like their wives, he said, "deliberately and in secret, under the cloak of American citizenship, as agents and helpers of the saboteur, schemed and connived to destroy their neighbors and this nation...
Toward Germany, Russia's aims were equally clear: "It is not our aim to destroy Germany, for it is impossible to destroy Germany. ... It is not our aim to destroy all military force in Germany. ... It is inadvisable from the standpoint of the future...
Same day Messrs. Green and Murray, up before the Senate Labor committee, wheeled into range of Mr. McNutt and laid down a barrage calculated to destroy every living thing for miles around. Murray shot the heaviest load, dismissing most of McNutt's proposals as "sheer nonsense," and saying flatly...
...most impressive things about the University's conditioning program. "Here a man can get individual or team workouts at any time." Physical fitness should become increasingly important in peacetime as well as wartime, the former Harvard baseball captain believes, but we should be ever cautious lest we destroy the "balance...