Word: cutting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Recommending ways to cut down the large number of graduate students entering fields already well-manned...
...West Rock palisades, which dominate New Haven, caused trouble from the start. The highway couldn't cut outside the cliff-that would take traffic too far from the city. It couldn't cut inside them either-the ground was swampy and the land was costly. The only choice was to cut right through them...
...report, was largely paid for by $68 billion in Government loans & grants to Europe and more than $10 billion in private gifts. These grants "have in effect been unconscious subsidies to American export industries" at the expense of American taxpayers. The subsidies could be eliminated, or at least cut, only by drastic changes in U.S. and European ways of doing business. Among its other proposals...
...tape should be cut from U.S. Customs regulations. One horrible example: An importer of women's coats could not get his goods through Customs because U.S. officials were unable to decide whether the import duty should be levied on the cloth or on the coat buttons. EUR) European countries must relax or abolish all import-export controls as quickly as possible and stop penalizing exporters, as Britain has, by putting an extra tax on export profits...
...ever a general had his work cut out him, it was George Churchill Kenney he reported for duty to Douglas MacArthur in Australia. The Allied Air he was to command in the South Pacific seemed hopelessly outnum by the Japanese. MacArthur told flatly that his new command was in combat and that he had no for its top officers. It looked as if MacArthur was right. The next day at noon, Kenney looking on, 27 Jap planes attacked a U.S. airdrome near Port Mores New Guinea. The Japs got away without being touched by U.S. fighters. Even the antiaircraft shooting...