Word: cut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment, it appeared that the heroic effort would fail. The leg went pale and lost its pulse. Dr. Gathright cut right back into the artery and removed a clot. Then an assistant pumped in an anticoagulant. There were no more clots...
...Last September the National Federation of Gastronomic Workers ordered Havana waiters not to serve Dubois food or drink. Dubois took the ineffectual embargo (lifted after four weeks) in stride. Scoffed he: "I'll bring my own sandwiches." Next, barbers in Pinar del Rio province refused to cut Dubois's hair. That did not bother him; he hasn't much hair anyhow...
...down all but one Buick plant. By the end of this week, General Motors production, now at a mere trickle, will be stopped completely. Chrysler has already laid off 5,000 workers in ten plants, by week's end will be forced to lay off many more. Ford cut back to three-and four-day weeks to conserve its dwindling steel supply into December. Suppliers suffered with the auto companies; Chevrolet has canceled orders affecting most of its 26,000 suppliers...
Credited with Westinghouse's climb back to high profits is onetime Management Consultant Mark W. Cresap Jr., 49, who took over as president in 1958, became chief executive officer last April. Under Cresap, Westinghouse has cut costs, improved low-profit product lines and reduced expenses...
...Jones & Laughlin 1.45 3.15 Wheeling Steel 1.80 2.78 Inland Steel 1.86 1.99 While second-quarter earnings made up for the third-period shutdown for most steel companies, they were not enough for ailing railroads. The New York Central reported a deficit for the third consecutive month, and a cut in nine months' earnings to 52? per share v. $1.56 per share at the end of June. The Pennsylvania had a $2.3 million loss in September that wiped out its eight months' profit and put the road $449,346 in the red for the first nine months. Other nine...