Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vaunted female sex') want something for nothing . . ." ''For nothing?" Waving aside all opinion as to woman's spiritual companionship and other vague attributes, there still remains in fact as opposed to theory that one thing which woman alone can contribute. . . . Let the M. Bernheim wipe the perspiration from his brow. and reconsider...
Then, with much excitement, the House pushed the back-door a little shut before passing the whole bill (323-to-76) and sending it to the Senate. Adopted was an amendment which would wipe out all capital loss carry-over from one year to the next. If in one year John P. Taxpayer has a total income of $20,000 and capital losses of $30,000. he would still pay no tax for that year. But his additional $10,000 loss would do him no good the next. If he were deliberately selling depreciated securities to establish a loss...
...plan. A short cold summer with excessive rainfall or a long blistering drought can reduce crops to such a point that President Roosevelt might have an acute food shortage on his hands. On the other hand an ideal combination of sun & rain can produce such bumper crops as to wipe out all trace of acreage cuts and send prices slumping to even lower levels. One year an acre will produce 12 bu. of wheat, the next 24 bu. Such is the gamble Secretary Wallace must take...
...When tax-day came he mailed his return to the Collector of Internal Revenue, with an oath that he owed the U. S. not a penny, since he had taken a capital loss of $2,872,000 in National City Bank stock, more than enough (with other deductions) to wipe out his year's income of $3,006,705.76-approximately $1,200,000 from salary & bonus, $400,000 from interest & dividends, $1,400,000 from stockmarket profits...
...consignment," stiffly announced the President of the Union, "came from a women's college." Meanwhile 25-year-old Lord Stanley of Alderley and five other members of the Oxford Union appealed to life members all over Britain, urged them to gather on the night of March 2 and wipe their Union clean by voting to expunge the pacifist resolution from its minutes...