Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, Maxon tried to make OPA popular even with businessmen. He reasoned: if OPA could only be rid of all its "slide-rule boys" and economic theorists, the agency would function smoothly. He did help force the resignation...
...bylaw which prohibits member papers from giving their own local news to anyone but A. P. ; 2) to annul the bylaws restricting membership in A.P.; 3) to cancel the contract which gives A. P. and Canadian Press the exclusive right to each other's news; 4) to get rid of Wide World Photos, whose picture service is available only to A. P. members...
...cute brunette. You ask her to dance. She accepts with a charming smile and a "lasso" gleam. Now try to get rid of her for that terrific blonde who just walked in. See what I mean? It's a little more difficult than Radar, isn't it? There, you can always turn the dial or something--but now you'se stuck. Congress says...
...planners study meteorology and meteorologists study city planning, but at best he thinks cities of the future may be made only a few degrees cooler in summer, a few degrees warmer in winter. The most practical step cities can now take toward weather control, says he, is to get rid of their smoke (perhaps by underground smoke tunnels). So doing, they would get more ultraviolet radiation, better visibility, fewer fogs, probably less rain...
...Subsidies discourage initiative because they remove the powerful incentive that any businessman (or farmer) has to keep going somehow. )- Subsidies breed more' subsidies. Said Albert S. Goss, getting his potent National Grange on the anti-subsidy record: "Having once established subsidies how are we ever going to get rid of them?" Others extended this point: as subsidies are applied to more & more products, consumers will save money by paying fixed prices, but this saving will be canceled by the higher taxes they must then...