Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RECIPROCAL TRADE will be major congressional battleground next year when current laws expire. Protectionists are gaining strength in Congress; they will push hard to wipe out laws under which President Eisenhower can lower many tariffs whenever similar concessions are granted by foreign countries. White House has given notice that it will fight to have laws extended, though it may have to accept some changes...
...week Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft suavely handed John Diefenbaker notice to put up or shut up. Britain, said he at a meeting of Commonwealth Finance Ministers at Mont Tremblant, Que., considered that "the most adventurous way" to increase British-Canadian trade would be to wipe out all tariffs...
Last spring French left his wife and three children in Puerto Rico, returned to the U.S. temporarily for a weapons refresher-training course. At the end of the course he got leave, proceeded to put into action a plan that would wipe clean all his debts. French went to Washington, on April 5 took a late-evening stroll past the sand brick Russian Embassy on 16th Street. At the embassy he paused, tossed through the fence a letter addressed "To Whom It May Concern." For $27,500, said the letter, "I believe I can furnish you with valuable military information...
FAST TAX WRITE-OFF for Idaho Power Co.'s Hells Canyon Darn (TIME, April 15 et seq.) will be canceled if Congress passes bill by Oregon Congressman Charles O. Porter to wipe out all fast write-offs, except for new weapons, retroactive...
...Cost of Inflation. Quarles expressed far more concern over the cause for the ban, the Government's desperate battle to control soaring defense costs. Expenditures are running $2 billion over the $36 billion budgeted for fiscal 1957 (TIME, May 6) and threaten to wipe out the predicted $1.7 billion budget surplus. So worried is the Defense Department that Wilson also ordered the three services to reduce their buying by $500 million for the rest of fiscal...