Word: cut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around the Palace of the Governors, the city was holding its 237-year-old fiesta, to celebrate the reconquest of the Indians by the Spanish. The fiesta would open, as it always does, with the burning of Zozobra, a 40-ft. effigy with a face of abysmal discontent (see cut). Zozobra, in Santa Fe folklore, represented Old Man Gloom...
...little now in the way of special help from the U.S., in the hope of more later. Specifically, they would probably propose a larger British slice of the ECA pie for Europe, which OEEC is currently fighting over (see below); a freer hand in spending their ECA allotment; a cut in U.S. tariff duties on British goods, an easing of U.S. customs red tape, and permission to save dollars by discriminating more freely against certain imports from the U.S. (i.e., buying goods, instead, from America's competitors if they can furnish them more cheaply). Sir Stafford Cripps was still...
Prime Minister Attlee was expected to launch the retrenchment policy next week at the convention of the powerful British Trades Union Congress at Bridlington. Last week he ordered all government bureaus to prepare estimates for a 5% cut in expenditures; if this economy could be carried through it would lop $600 million from the nation's $12 billion budget. Board of Trade President Harold Wilson ordered a 5% slash in some retail textile and footwear prices; this might ease workers' pressure for wage increases...
...youth. Ossett (pop. 15,000), Philip's home town in Yorkshire, prepared a big celebration. But his schoolmaster predicted that fame would not go to Philip's head: "He's a sound lad." Although Philip had stolen her thunder, Shirley May prettily congratulated him (see cut...
Perched on orange-colored canvas chairs atop fern-scented Mount Ammouda, smiling King Paul of the Hellenes, grim U.S. General James Van Fleet and several Greek army commanders awaited the signal for the attack. At daybreak, newly arrived U.S.-made Helldivers cut across the pale blue sky to unload their cargo of Napalm fire bombs. In a few minutes, the sleepy purple mountains seemed ablaze. At week's end, King Paul and his party could celebrate a smashing victory...