Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tears over Taxes. The President figured that he could count on Congress to raise postal rates so as to wipe out a $352 million Post Office deficit. Then, he declared proudly, the budget would be balanced-for the first time since 1930 (see.PRESS). It would also show a $202 million surplus if revenues reached $37.7 billion on the basis of present taxes...
...control of the Ambassador. Said one California financier: "All Schine bought is the first place in line." But it was really more than that. Schine can now do one of three things: 1) acquire full ownership by paying bondholders off outright; 2) sit tight and wait for profits to wipe out the bonds; 3) sell certificates of his holdings to a higher bidder. Few people who know Schine expect him to sell...
...vote in the Assembly should be cast by provinces, which would let him take advantage of the 7-to-3 Hindu majority in Assam. Jinnah said that the vote should be cast for Group C as a whole. In this way his 33to-27 majority in Bengal would wipe out the Hindu margin in Assam and give the Moslems a 36-to-34 edge (in effect, a limited Pakistan) in Group C. The British agreed with Jinnah...
Certainly, said he, the N.A.M. hoped to rectify "the unbalanced collective bargaining relationship between labor and management." But business must remember that U.S. voters "did not vote to destroy unions or to do away with collective bargaining; to deny labor the right to strike or to wipe out its legitimate gains...
Last week, at experimental centers in Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington, D.C., 30 literacy classes along Army lines began for 500 of the 3,000,000 Negroes who comprise nearly one third of U.S. adult illiterates. The 500 are a "pilot group"; the U.S. Office of Education hopes to wipe out all adult illiteracy. Just as the Army primers had talked about jeeps and girls rather than cats and mice, the textbooks for the Negroes were tailored to fit the special interests of a community, e.g., cottonfields. The Army found that exercises like "see the dog run" only bored adults...