Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dunster and Eliot are slated to stage a down-to-the-wire race for final first place standing in Straus Trophy competition this spring. The Funsters boast a 5 1/2 point lead over the Elephants, 982 1/2 to 977, but the perennially strong Eliot crew is expected to wipe out this lead and make the race a toss-up. Otherwise, the two Houses are rated fairly even...
...fact that K-F can apply $31.2 million of its losses against future profits. Thus also, if Willys in 1953 should again make $24 million in profits before taxes, the new company could keep all of them, pay no taxes, and in a single year K-F could wipe out almost half of its seven-year losses...
...depression emergency measure and expanded in function and influence during the New and Fair Deals. For years Byrd's fight was a solitary one. Last week, however, Harry Byrd was sublimely confident that the 83rd Congress would ultimately pass his newly introduced bill to wipe out RFC as of next Dec. 31, neatly nipping in the bud any move to extend the agency's life beyond June 1954, when its lending authority expires...
Seminole (Universal-International) takes place in early 19th century Florida territory, where a martinet of a U.S. Army major (Richard Carlson) seems determined to wipe out the friendly Seminole Indians. Championing the cause of the redskins is a dashing lieutenant (Rock Hudson), a boyhood friend of the Seminole chief (Anthony Quinn) with whom he is competing for the same girl (Barbara Hale). After a lot of war-whooping, Indian raids and military attacks-during which the chief gets killed, the major gets his comeuppance and the lieutenant gets the girl-a peaceful settlement of the Seminole problem appears imminent...
...Wipe & Wax. Racine's (Wis.) Johnson's Wax Co. put on the market Jubilee, a combination wax and cleaner for kitchen stoves, refrigerators, walls and woodwork. It removes greasy cooking films, stains and smudges, leaves a hard, protective wax coating. Price of one pint, enough to clean...