Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...export tax on minerals, living up to Castro's boast at the rally that his mining law would "hurt the vested interests," e.g., Freeport Sulphur's Moa Bay nickel and cobalt mines. Mining companies, still studying the law, said that it was "pretty rough" and might wipe out profits completely. Three days later, Castro seized oil-company records of land leases in Cuba, pending issuance of a new petroleum code...
...destroyer escort and seemed doomed to far worse. Then came an amazing turnabout. Still recovering from his swim off Palawan Island, bedeviled by the destroyers, Kurita broke off the action, headed back through San Bernardino Strait. Said Admiral Clifton Sprague later: "The failure of the enemy ... to completely wipe out this task unit can be attributed to our successful smoke screen, our torpedo counterattack . . . and the definite partiality of Almighty...
...Spells Simplicity." Whether front engine or rear, the compacts are all made to wipe out the longstanding complaints against U.S. car craftsmanship. "One reason that Europeans have achieved a reputation for excellent craftsmanship," says Cole, is that "their cars are relatively simple, but American cars have been getting more and more complicated." Cole has built a car whose six-cylinder engine has fewer parts than standard engines, is easily accessible, can be completely removed from the car in less than 30 minutes. "Everything about it spells simplicity," says Cole. "The engine is handy enough for any do-it-yourself mechanic...
...Matter of Definition. Soustelle wants to do more than wipe out France's dollar deficit. He hopes to make France a major oil supplier to the entire 168 million people in Western Europe's new Common Market nations, feeding oil by tanker into the southern end of a projected 36-inch pipeline from Marseille to Karlsruhe. Sahara's natural gas might be transported to Europe either by tankers specially built to carry it in liquid form or by a trans-Mediterranean pipeline through Spain. And Algeria itself will benefit from a feeder line to carry gas from...
...airlines. This year, as part of industry's tougher stand toward labor, management aims to pluck some of the featherbeds. A chief cause of the current steel strike is management's insistence on winning more control over local working practices, partly motivated by the desire to wipe out what Chief Steel Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper called "loafing, featherbedding and unjustifiable idle time." The railroad industry, worst feathered of the lot, has pledged an all-out assault against make-work when contract talks open this fall. In the oil industry, the American Oil Co. has taken a month-long...