Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laid it on the shelf until it was over. ... If we're going to get anywhere in this business of getting out of the Depression-of using public funds to stimulate business, we've got to appoint a Director General of Public Works to wipe out these laws and put the buildings...
...have learned to keep out. "As soon as apes began to go in families and hordes . . . unselfishness of mothers, devotion of fathers and disinterestedness of friends began to operate. Such a patchwork is homo sapiens. It is hard to imagine any purely terrestrial epidemic or insect scourge that would wipe...
While I realize no apology can wipe out this stigma I take the liberty of calling it to your attention, that we may be spared a repetition...
Announcement of these initial loans last week, five months after the system was created, did not come in time to halt a concerted Senate drive to wipe the Home Loan Bank Board out of existence. Its record of inaction outraged Senator Borah who week before offered a sweeping repealer. Said he: "The act is proving wholly unsatisfactory. We are going to build up a tremendous institution at very great expense without any real benefit...
Radio likewise made several financial adjustments last week. The two electric companies agreed to wipe off $8,938,000 of RCA's $17,938,000 debt to them. GE bought Radio's uptown Manhattan building for $4,745,000. Rockefeller Center Inc. at the same time agreed to let RCA reduce the amount of space it has leased, accepting $5,000,000 worth of preferred RCA stock for this concession...