Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knew where India's dragon lay, and went off to slay him. "Communalism," he declared, "is India's greatest enemy. In the north, this communal poison has created hatred between Hindus and Sikhs. In the south, it has created antagonism between Brahmins and non-Brahmins . . . Unless we wipe out these communal parties, India will go to pieces...
...Congress, already protesting waste in defense spending, both moves seemed to open wide new doors of extravagance and favoritism. At the very least, they meant a subsidy to some holders of defense contracts. Southerners complained that Wilson's "distressed industry" plan might wipe out the booming South's competitive edge over New England textiles. Cried South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank, whose Senate-House "watchdog" committee launched an immediate inquiry: "I am not going to sit here and preside over the liquidation of the Southern textile industry." Added South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes...
Sherwood, one of the top directors of U.S. psychological warfare in World War II, was aghast at the reaction that his lead article on the "history" of World War III stirred up in Washington. One State Department expert on Russia moaned that the Collier's issue might "wipe out all the good our propaganda may have accomplished in the past year" In Europe, non-Communist newspapers denounced Collier's for its "warmongering." Even the United Nations, in whose name Collier's fought the war, lodged an official protest against the magazine...
Stripped Shelves. The year of industrial growth began in fear and foreboding. In January, the U.S. still quivered from the shock of the Red Chinese intervention in Korea and the U.N. retreat. Consumers, fearful that war production would wipe out civilian goods, started a great wave of panic buying. Department stores, whose business normally skids after Christmas, found sales skyrocketing-and prices right along with them. To try to stop the rise, Price Boss Mike Di Salle put ceilings on all prices. The effect was to reward the chiselers who had already jacked up their prices and punish those...
...fought harder to grasp this prize than Railroad Juggler Robert R. Young, who owns 51% of MoPac's outstanding common stock. For two years he has opposed a plan, tentatively approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which would wipe out the common-stock interests, give control of the reorganized road to the bondholders. Last week the fight erupted in a rash of full-page ads across the nation and a flurry of charges and countercharges at an ICC hearing...