Word: cuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mountain strongholds of Vitsi and Grammos. Government generals sent the first units of their 65,000 U.S.-equipped troops into the Grammos sector, where the guerrillas had been expecting the main push. Five days later the government's main forces struck at Vitsi, split the Communist positions and cut off their westward retreat routes to Albania...
...convert's home in the mountain village of Melcamaya, Baptist Missionary Norman Dabbs was holding a Bible class. When 300 drunken Indians began to stone the house, Dabbs and 40 terrified converts tried to escape in a truck. The Indians cut across a dry river bed, intercepted the truck, laid about with sticks and stones. When they had finished, Norman Dabbs and seven Bolivian Baptists lay dead...
...Arkansas' governor, he decided to do something about it, called his good friend and former school chum, Alfred Bryan Bonds Jr., home from his job as training director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to help out as State Education Commissioner. Already Arkansas had passed a referendum which cut the state's 1,500 school districts (many with less than 350 pupils) to an economical 428, abolished the 18-mill maximum on property taxes which had hamstrung most efforts to increase school allotments. But something had to be done to convince Arkansans that they should up their local...
...sosta piacevole" (freely: The Pause That Refreshes), a fleet of 200 yellow trucks pound along ancient Roman routes from the bottling centers, and deliverymen dressed in uniforms emblazoned with Coca-Cola's red patch trundle boxes into caffe bars and wineshops. In Venice, two motor launches (see cut) chug along the Grand Canal on delivery routes...
...week got a new president: Roy T. Hurley, director of manufacturing engineering at the Ford Motor Co. He was handpicked by Wall Street Investment Banker Paul V. Shields, who took over as Curtiss-Wright's chairman and chief executive officer last April. Shields wanted a man who could cut costs at Curtiss-Wright and lift its sales volume to a profitable level with an additional line of non-aviation products...