Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Provost has sent back many departmental budgets for revision in an "internal economy" move, but further budget slashes are not feasible because they would "cut into the quality of the education." A predicted deficit of $350,000 in Faculty accounts this year will "almost wipe out the departmental balance," accumulated over five years...
...recent decision to wipe out Geography as a field of concentration, the excuse put forth was that "Harvard cannot hope to have strong departments in everything." At the moment when Geography threatened to become a strong department, in fact, it was eliminated. An associate professorship was proposed for Assistant Professor Edward A. Ackerman. When the Corporation turned down his appointment, thus halting the trend toward a strong department, the Division of Earth Sciences eliminated Geography for its inadequate staff...
Other U.S.-aided attempts to wipe out aftosa by killing all infected and exposed cattle had bogged down against the iron-hard resistance of the Mexican campesinos (TIME, Dec. 8). So slaughter was replaced by quarantine and vaccination; a part of the substitute plan is the fence now abuilding. From a starting point on the Gulf of Mexico, it will run across the states of San Luis Potosi and Zacatecas, then southwest to the Pacific at Puerto Vallarta. North of the line, which is guarded by more than 15,000 Mexican soldiers, 1,000 Mexican and U.S. technicians, there...
...said it had grossed $227.5 million in the first eleven months of 1947, and had netted a profit of $15.5 million. (These figures, said K-F, were unaudited, thus subject to change.) By November, the rate of profit had risen to about $4.7 million a month, enough to wipe out the 1946 loss of $19,000,000. And K-F still had $18 mill;on in cash in the till...
...price boosts had yanked up break-even points of many a corporation to the danger point. Warned the National Industrial Conference Board: "Many executives express great concern over the much higher break-even points today than in prewar years. Instances are reported where a moderate sales decline would wipe out all profits and result in deficit operations...