Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What Lies Ahead?" From the moment he began, Tom Dewey made it clear that the Republican Party had rid itself for keeps of the old taint of isolationism. He spoke on the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Munich Pact and he was explicit in his resolve that Munich must never come again: "We cannot buy peace with appeasement. That course has always led throughout history and always will lead to greater and greater demands on the part of the aggressor. In the end it can lead only to slavery...
...high-pressure exhaust gases from the cylinders spin a two-stage turbine that drives a compressor. The air from the compressor passes through a cooler, which gets rid of the heat of compression, makes the air contract and become denser, able to burn more fuel. The dense supercharged air goes into the piston engine, burns with the fuel and passes on to the turbine. As it shoots out through a tailpipe, it exerts several hundred pounds of jet thrust...
...Five-Paramount, Loew's Inc. (M-G-M), RKO, Warner Bros., and 20th Century-Fox -be ordered to 1) sell their interest in theater chains they partially control (about 1,400 movie houses) within a year, and 2) submit plans on how they expect to get rid of some of their remaining (about 1,600) theaters within the next five. And each time they buy a new theater they would have to get court approval...
...Remington Arms Co., Inc., Ethyl Corp., Kinetic Chemicals Inc., North American Aviation Inc. and Bendix Aviation Corp. More than a year ago the antitrusters had also prepared, but never filed, a suit against Du Pont to ask that it get rid of its 23% control of General Motors. The new investigation, which also seemed likely to last well past November, included two companies (North American and Bendix) in which G.M. had publicly sold its holdings earlier this year...
...told him to go back to the Piazza and get his ring's worth from some rich American. I told him that we were just youth hostelers, and thus among the poorest of the poor. He asked how much we had, and I said, thinking this would get rid of him at last, that between...