Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imported mongooses (from Java). They cleaned up the rats in short order- and then began on the snakes, the lizards and the birds. With all these insect-eaters out of the way, the insects all but took over the island. Finally the Government had to step in and get rid of the mongooses...
...Wilmington's Federal Court for $1,000,000 (treble damages) against Eversharp Inc. and Eberhard Faber Corp. on a familiar Arnold charge: violation of the antitrust laws. The two defendants, Arnold claimed, had tried to "prevent mass distribution" of the Reynolds pen until they could 1) get rid of their own obsolete stocks, and 2) produce a ballbearing pen of their own on the basis of patent rights acquired from Laszlo Joszef Biro of Argentina (TIME...
...TIME, Jan. 8), Chicago and Buffalo gave their pigeons long, hard looks. Chicago found over 47% of its birds infected; Buffalo found its pigeons "a nuisance." Result: Chicago may kill its pigeons soon; Buffalo will begin at once to trap its birds, eat them or let the A.S.P.C.A. get rid of them. But an advisory committee headed by Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, has pooh-poohed the pigeon menace: "There is not sufficient. . . evidence . . . to warrant an indiscriminate elimination. . . . There is good evidence that only a small percentage of [human] infection is definitely...
Question Reopened. But there was more at stake than the U.S. Army's efficiency in getting rid of Nazis. In the Allied Control Council's debate on reparations, the whole question of What To Do With Germany suddenly seemed wide open again...
Argentines rid themselves of their military dictator last week. But they were not rid of the military...