Word: wiped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been the most consistent of the Roosevelt policies. Even so, a thorough reading of the Wheeler-Rayburn bill to abolish public utility holding companies (TIME, Feb. 18) left the industry chilled and dazed. But not for long. Sincerely convinced that the enactment of such stringent legislation would not only wipe out hundreds of millions invested in holding company securities but come very close to wrecking a $12,000,000,000 business, the powermen launched a nation-wide appeal for what they considered justice...
...some 90,000 Abyssinians routed 13,000 Italians, slew 6,500. This week Fascists exulted that smashing Italian victories in Abyssinia in 1935 will "wipe out the shame...
...make an outright Government loan, would set up a revolving fund to finance Soviet purchases. Russia would pay for the use of this fund an interest rate of some 9%, the entire transaction being for an amount so large that interest payments by Russia would more than suffice to wipe (jut the principal of all U. S. claims. Had President Roosevelt made acceptance of this offer the condition of U. S. recognition of the U. S. S. R. in 1933, Russia might have been expected to sign on the dotted line with joy. Last week, recognition being...
...paused to wipe away a tear. "So I named my second duck Goo-Goo, II, after the first duck, who had been named Goo-Goo I. And I signed a contract with the Association of Poultry Fanciera, agreeing that they were to provide me with plenty of ducks for my act, on condition that for thirty years I sell all the ducks I can and turn in my orders to their company. I usu- ally sell about two hundred ducks a night since I've been...
Another inventor observed that people wiping their feet on doormats all wipe with a rearward motion, which gradually flattens the bristles and decreases the efficacy of the mat. Some callers are too lazy to wipe their feet at all. Both problems are taken care of by his revolving doormat which gives the feet a circular scouring while the visitor stands still...