Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sounded every inch a toolmaker; Einstein plowed shyly and awkwardly through his lines. Only one of the 21-man panel was unconcerned. Said 85-year-old Samuel Gould: "I've seen every thing there is to see. ... If an atomic bomb were to fall right now and WHOOSH - wipe out the whole world, it would leave me completely indifferent...
When the operators countered with changes that proposed to wipe out all the gains in working conditions that the brotherhoods had made in 50 years of bargaining, the factfinders threw in the sponge. Under the strike settlement, another year would be taken to straighten them...
Several new bridges were thrown across the officer-enlisted-man gap. Some of them were primarily economic: quarters and travel allowances for all ranks, cumulative furlough time and terminal-leave pay for enlisted men as well as officers. Others were designed to wipe out needless social discriminations, off-duty saluting, the use of such archaic phrases as "officer's ladies and enlisted men's wives...
...Navy auspices. Virtually nothing has been published about it except that the principal disease under study was "hundreds of years old and one of the greatest killers." But the day after Thomas' original break, other Congressmen, popeyed and anonymous, announced that the Navy had a weapon which could wipe out "all forms of life" in a large city. "It is a germ proposition and is sprayed from airplanes that can fly high enough to be reasonably safe from ground fire. It is quick and certain death...
Then came the amendments. Indiana's Homer Capehart wanted the loan reduced to $1.5 billion. California's William F. Knowland tried to bar the loan until U.S. production had reached prewar levels and the budget showed a surplus. Vermont's George Aiken suggested another: wipe out the British Empire preference system...