Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supply half the wheat for ERP shipments to Europe.) Last year the Dominion had a deficit of $743 million in its trading accounts in U.S. currency. This year, as a result of the import restrictions, it will be less. ERP, with at least $500 million earmarked for Canada, will wipe out the 1948 deficit...
...management of the Harvard Dramatic Club, and to almost everybody production. Shaw and Viertel, who wrote "The Survivors," far from meaning harm, appear to have attempted to creste an allegory for our times, a dramatization of the concept that unreasonable hatred and stupidity make nations, as well as men, wipe each other out of existence. But the play itself adds up to little more than a somewhat melodramatic series of bare repetitions of this concept which, admirable as it may be in itself, requires something more than persistent enunciation to become entertainment. Similarly the Dramatic Club, far from meaning harm...
...small Missouri town immediately after the Civil War. It concerns the perverse hatred of three brothers and their grandfather for a local rancher, who apparently contrived to have two of the brothers captured by the Rebels during the war as part of a long-range program designed to wipe out the entire family. There is some confusion as to whether the rancher actually intended the capture, and this suffices to prolong the revenge for three acts, while the merits of the case are aired with much vigor but little consequences. The trouble is that the actors all get more worked...
Reluctant Hunters. On the other hand, Americans, seeing more & more U.S. aid going to Greece, wondered why the Greeks didn't buckle down to the job and wipe out the Communist guerrillas. U.S. advisers have urged the Greek-army, scattered among its fortified positions, to get out on the offensive. Greek generals replied that they were not well enough armed...
...normal" condition of overproduction. The Hawaiian price has fallen from its wartime high of $126.40 per ton to $108, seems likely to tumble more. With this prospect, Hawaii's planters must somehow cut their costs. Increased mechanization has helped. Last week's merger, said Baldwin, would 1) wipe out duplicate bookkeeping and other management functions, 2) make for a more efficient distribution of the 400 million gallons of water which another Baldwin-controlled company annually sends through the irrigation system started by old Henry's Hamakua Ditch...