Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...innermost circle of the Western Front's hell; where in 1916 the French and Germans each lost 350,000 men; where, between February and July, 23 million shells punctuated the deadlocked argument; Douaumont, captured and recaptured but each time by an accident, the death trap where an explosion wiped out a whole battalion and the corpses were bricked in where they lay. The Crown Prince, dressed in tennis flannels, a racket under his arm, cheering on the troops marching up to the front line; his aide tossing packets of cigarets from a speeding car, and the soldiers stamping them...
...lower per-capita cost of government, only St. Louis has a lower per-capita bonded indebtedness. Throughout Depression it has kept notably solvent, has not once defaulted on a payroll or interest payment. It has set up an amortization fund which at the present rate of growth will wipe out its entire bonded indebtedness by 1943, put all city operations on a cash basis...
...Akron, Ohio plant, besieged by striking rubber workers. Emerging from his industrial fortress for the first time in two weeks, President Litchfield found time to declare: "We will appeal the decision of the Federal Trade Commission to the Federal courts. Were it permitted to stand, the decision would wipe out a widely used trade practice under which a substantial proportion of the country's total retail business is done. . . . This practice itself is on trial, not Goodyear...
Thence, knighthood in my blood, I to seek a lady to serve. Whereupon comes the Old Woman, but today, very strange, she did look most fair. "Madame, this day I am your Knight; but bid me and with one stroke of my sword I'll wipe out the whole damn scrubbing business!" Whereupon she did throw me down the stairs...
...more normal proportions. To Chairman Eccles the track looks clear as far as he can see. Moreover, he disagrees with Banker Aldrich about the air-brakes. As soon as he spies a red-signal around the Recovery bend, he can: 1) Double reserve requirements, a move which would wipe out some 90% of the present excess. 2) Order the Reserve Banks to sell some of their $2,400,000,000 load of Government securities. To pay for all these bonds the member banks would have to draw down their balances with the Reserve System to an extent that would reduce...