Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...navies obsolete? Can a single atomic bomb attack destroy a billion-dollar surface fleet? Chronically optimistic airmen (who will drop the bombs) think so. Brassbound Navymen hold that atomic explosives are just another weapon: they may modify but they will not wipe out their seagoing fortresses and flying fields. This week, top Army & Navy ordnance men and atomic bombers were down to the i-dotting stage on plans to settle the question...
Fresh-water fishermen had better be careful how they use DDT. If they wipe out mosquitoes by treating the breeding places, they may starve the neighborhood fish by cutting off their food supply. That's the opinion of Professor Bertil G. Anderson, who teaches at both Ohio State and West Virginia. He has been studying the effects of DDT on living fish food, and he is alarmed...
...come on," said Molotov. "You are not a politician and I will not be one. You know correspondents do not like Soviet censorship. You want to wipe...
...advice to civilians: the hard back of your fist to any returning G.I. or officer who attempts wiping his feet on you as he has been accustomed to wipe his feet on Europeans (all of them) whom he considers "inferior...
When it came to the atom bomb, the report dropped its own shocker on the plane-building East and West Coasts. Said the report: six atomic bombs dropped in the Los Angeles area could completely wipe out the giant Southern California plane industry. What must be done, said the report, is to disperse the aircraft industry. This could best be accomplished by letting coast planemakers trade some of their present plants for Government-owned facilities inland. The moving costs should be paid by the Government...