Word: raze
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...decision to raze the Stock Exchange building to save taxes and to replace it with a large and spreading buttonwood tree* to save at least a symbol of the famous old market place was unanimously voted yesterday by the three governors who have not forfeited voting rights because of arrearage of dues...
...nothing was left of Leo Carrillo but his accent; that Alice Brady, Virginia Bruce, Miriam Hopkins, Richard Dix. June Lang and Oliver Hardy were not much better than ingredients in a huge Thanksgiving Barbecue. In the press, pictures of these notables were accompanied by such headlines as FOREST FIRES RAZE FILM COLONY HOMES, and FLAMES WRECK HOMES OF STARS; TOWNS IN PERIL...
...which since 1921 have been maintained on Irish soil. 2) The six-year-old dispute over land annuities (guaranteed absentee Irish landlords by Britain after their estates were expropriated) is to be settled by the lump payment to Britain of $50,000,000. 3) The two nations agree to raze their retaliatory tariff walls built up since the land annuities squabble began in 1932. The pact will go into effect as soon as it is ratified by both Parliaments, will run for three years...
...Rockefeller Sr., believed in taking every precaution. Although the last disastrous earthquake in New England was in 1755, in 1908 he built the walls of his Greenwich, Conn, home of reinforced concrete three feet thick, carried $1,000,000 earthquake insurance. Last week wreckers who had contracted to raze the house decided to use dynamite...
...Nanking. Japanese contempt for noncombatant lives and humanitarian institutions, such as hospitals, was the outstanding feature of the bombing raids of the last weekend. Ninety-five Japanese planes made deliberate attempts in two successive raids to raze the 500-bed Central Rockefeller Hospital, although the Japanese claim this was occupied by the military...