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...more than $90 million a year in petroleum revenue, heard intriguing news last week. In his annual budget message, Social Credit Premier Ernest Manning said it was entirely possible that within the foreseeable future Alberta's oil and gas income would double. That would be enough to wipe out all present municipal, school and hospital taxes...
...head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America), onetime G.O.P. National Committee chairman (1918-21) and Harding's first Postmaster General (1921-22); of a heart ailment; in his home town, Sullivan, Ind. Resigning as Postmaster General, he accepted Hollywood's offer to let him wipe clean the sin-filled screen (at $100,000 a year), forestalled a widespread public demand for state censorship. No czar, wily Will Hays became U.S. filmdom's No. 1 booster (and whipping boy), helped draw up prim production and advertising codes, closely regulated moviemaking from story idea to exhibition...
Many of the works in the current show are done in Vinylite, which Tamayo likes because of its quick-drying qualities. And, says he: "If you don't like what you have just painted, you can wipe it out with acetone. In oils, if you decide to do something different, you paint over it, and later, ghosts appear through the overpainted...
Last December New York's irascible Congressman John Taber, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, served notice of his intention to wipe out the Administration's anticipated $3 billion deficit. But last week the year's first money bill proved to be too tightly budgeted to render much fat, even under the sizzling gaze of John Taber's practiced eyes. Taber's committee approved, and the House passed, a $3,333,241,600 appropriation for the Treasury and Post Office Departments, a cut of less than 0.2% off the $3,338,783,000 presidential estimate...
...treatment of tuberculosis (TIME, March 3, 1952) than another contender appeared: pyrazinamide, also called Aldinamide. Alone, it proved disappointing. But when the two drugs were given together, researchers at Manhattan's New York Hospital found, the combination had a truly amazing property: it was able to wipe out tuberculous infection in the spleens of mice whereas previous drugs or combinations had only arrested the growth of the bacilli. They thought they were on the brink of a momentous discovery...