Sentence:  Paradoxically , the same week in which Senator McClellan was attempting to extend the anti-trust act to labor in transportation , the Civil Aeronautics Board was assuring the airlines that if they met in concert to <WSD>eliminate</WSD> many costly features of air travel , the action would not be deemed a violation of the anti-trust act . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  terminate, end, or take out