Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power industry as a whole earned 10% on equity capital and about 6% overall on all invested funds. The overall Dixon-Yates return will be about 4%-if costs are kept in line. If not, a big enough jump in construction and operating costs might wipe out profits for the next 25 years. According to the contract estimates, at the end of 25 years the company will own an aging plant and still owe a debt of about $25 million...
...Harvard defensive unit held off a swarm of righteous Princetons for a full 20 minutes. That same year when the Crimson beat Brown officials had attempted to foil the raiders by covering the posts with a thick coat of lard. But blue blazers were used to wipe the posts clean enough to permit razing...
...coexistence" if the West will just extend a trusting hand. As the horror of atomic and later of hydrogen warfare burned more deeply into Britain's consciousness, the need became more insistent (every Briton knows the statistic that four to eight well-placed nuclear bombs would just about wipe out his island). As the years went by and the assault never came, the belief became easier...
...private office: walnut-floored, oak-paneled and immense (960 sq. ft., as much as a five-room house). Near by are the private aide's office, private dining room, private conference room (which Ickes sometimes used as his bedroom) and private bathroom (where Ickes used to wipe his feet happily on a bath mat emblazoned with the Republican elephant). In Ickes' enormous room, at Ickes' great, gleaming desk, there now sits a successor who cares nothing for mussolinian magnificence: Douglas McKay, 61, veteran Chevrolet dealer -"the old car peddler," he calls himself-from Salem...
...year's biggest threat to Joe Martin's prescription came on a Democratic move to send back to committee the massive tax-revision bill. The Democrats wanted to raise individual exemptions and wipe out the proposed deductions of dividend income. Rather than argue his case on the House floor, which he does infrequently, Martin called a caucus of G.O.P. Congressmen...