Word: cuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handsome $204,000), Baldwin's boys rushed upstairs. In the stifling room, bedlam broke loose. Men seized chairs, smashed them over the heads of their opponents. Knives flashed. One member leaped to protect Irving, was deeply slashed for his pains. Before the police arrived, 25 men had been cut. "We'll get you at the next meeting," yelled one man as Irving was escorted out by police. There would not be another meeting, retorted "Two-Cadillac" Irving as he boarded a plane back to Washington, "until this thing quiets down...
...chamber, joined croupiers, cameramen and curiosity-seekers around the first crap table in the Casino's 71 years of existence. Blonde, white-suited Lillian Moore-"one of the 100 most beautiful girls in the world"-took the dice, shook them, blew on them, threw the inaugural roll (see cut...
...upturn was coming, said Slichter, whether people had any confidence or not. The reason: people are already consuming goods faster than the U.S. production machine is turning them out. For five months, said Slichter, while many businessmen cut back their inventories, consumption has been outrunning production...
When a $10,000-a-year official of the RFC, John Hagerty, took over the $30,000-a-year presidency of Waltham Watch Co. (TIME, May 9), many a congressional temper flared. For Hagerty, as the RFC's Boston manager, had recommended the $9,000,000 loan (later cut to $6,000,000) that enabled Waltham to reorganize. A Senate committee began digging into the RFC's records, found that the RFC had been an open door to high-salaried jobs in other companies which it had bailed out. In 4½-years, 20 RFC employees had joined...
Manhattan's swelling Puerto Rican community has provided a lush bonanza tor nonscheduled U.S. airlines. For two years, many "non-skeds" had packed in their passengers like cattle to make their cut-rate fares profitable. Worse still in the same period there had been no less than four crashes, killing 117 people. The latest-and most serious-was six weeks ago when a Curtiss Commando plane operated by Strato-Freight, Inc. plunged into the Atlantic, killing 53 of its 81 occupants (TIME, June 20). After that, the Civil Aeronautics Administration decided to take a harder look...