Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lowered Ax. The merger would also make possible "administrative economies." They had already begun. Less new talent would be hired and there would be no pay increases for stars. Such a policy had long been recommended by Rank's penny-wise chief adviser, ex-Accountant John Davis, 40. In the past he had lost some tiffs to producers who put prestige before profit. Now profit-minded John Davis was the undisputed operating manager...
Tough, canny Mr. Cohu, World War I flyer and ex-board chairman of Northrop Aircraft Inc., lost no time in swinging his new broom-and his ax. He spent so much time flying from one TWA office to another that a TWA underling quipped: "The loneliest place in the company is the president's office in Kansas City...
...people are honestly harmed. If there are 400 thousand Communists in CRS or a million in France, they're Communists because they want to be--or they've legally voted that way--and they don't exactly like the idea of Communists in America getting the ax. On the other hand, they know that Republicans are not being tolerated in Russia, and not a few are critical...
Ready for the Season. In Missoula, Mont., the U.S. Forestry Service gravely announced that a grizzly bear had broken into a cabin, sneaked off with a hunting knife, an ax, a box of cartridges...
...cartoon in the Evening News showed a London family preparing with bated breath to open a can of fish. "Steady now, mother," says the paterfamilias, standing by with an ax; "if it springs at you, I slosh it with this ax...