Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end egg processors had taken more than half the 1,400 freight cars off WFA's hands. When it gets rid of the rest, WFA says the crisis will be past. By then the seasonal egg slump will have begun, and WFA hopes the hens will observe...
...learned his business while he was being completely transformed into what you see in the picture. Look at his gear: it's worn (and obviously this isn't a posed picture), but it's all there and in good shape. A 'demoralized' soldier gets rid of his equipment the first thing. (You should have seen the Eyties.) He's carrying his weapon in the easy way you associate with experience and skill...
...mayor. Mounting a soapbox, able Mayor Lapham gave the pigeon feeders an impromptu 15-minute lecture on the merits of unifying the city's traction system. Pointing to the elephants, he cried: "There stands an early outmoded form of transportation the likes of which we intend to get rid of in this town...
...After almost four years of operation, RID has a secret file of every call letter heard on the air in that time. It also has a "very good'' picture of the total organization of Nazi radio espionage. This picture often helps to relieve RID's biggest headache: hearing, for example, a station that it knows to be Nazi espionage headquarters in Hamburg saying "QSA-O, QSA-O" day after day, RID realizes that Hamburg is calling one of its spies and getting no reply. When Hamburg does get through to its man and starts talking...
...Which has saluted RID's worth in supplying emergency bearings to more than 400 aircraft lost in all kinds of weather over the U.S. and its approaches...