Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wipe out the remaining pockets of distress and economic discrimination in the United States...
...William March's original novel, and in the Broadway hit adapted from it by Maxwell Anderson, this Gothic fable had a certain ghoulish conviction. While the theory that criminal tendencies can be inherited from criminal parents is ridiculous biology, it makes for bloodcurdling drama. To wipe what she believes is her tainted blood from the earth, the mother tries to kill herself and her daughter. In the novel and the play her suicide was successful, and the story's irony lay in the fact that the lethal child recovered with no one suspecting her crimes. Producer-Director Mervyn...
...Passed, in the House, by a 217-165 vote, an Administration bill-opposed by the Democratic leadership-to raise postal rates from 3? to 4? for first-class mail, 6? to 7? for domestic airmail, and by 30% to 120% for second-class mail. The bill, designed to wipe out the postal deficit by producing $430 million a year in new revenue, will probably be pigeonholed in the Senate...
Essentially both statements mean the same thing-i.e., that he wants to wipe out the rigid, 90%-of-parity price supports adopted in wartime, because he is convinced that they only build up the surplus and will not really sustain prices. He favors a flexible price-support system ranging down to 75% of parity for crops in surplus and up to 90% for crops in demand, because he feels this will discourage production of surpluses and give the law of supply and demand a chance to operate to the farmers' eventual benefit...
Hardest hit of all would be Minnesota's four beet sugar refineries; unrestricted ad mission of Cuban sugar would wipe out the uneconomic growth of sugar beets by Minnesota farmers...