Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfamiliar to U. S. audiences. The new maestro, who had just defied bombs and mines on the S. S. Vulcama, for his chance to conduct the NBCers, was Belgium's No. i Conductor Désiré Defauw (pronounced Defoe). Driving the orchestra at top speed, with its cut-out open, through a broadcast of light French and Belgian pieces, Maestro Defauw left a few loose bolts & nuts by the wayside. But as he zoomed across the finish line the audience in buff-walled Studio 8-H broke into cheers...
...world of medicine boasts some 6,000 medical journals, almost a tenth of them in the U. S. A major requirement for scientific publication is dullness. All articles in British and U. S. journals are cut to the same hidebound pattern: The problem is stated, its history reviewed (often from the time of Hippocrates), the experiments or clinical notes baldly recorded, briefly "discussed." Finally the whole structure is crowned with conclusions-if there...
Meanwhile barge competition heavily subsidized by the Government undercuts railroad rates on many inland waterways. Trucks-which until recently did not have the handicap of being under Government regulation-meanwhile cut into freight traffic, and pipelines took a flood of oil (1938's total: 1,158,000,000 bbls.) that railroads would have liked to have in their tank cars. At the same time automobiles and motorbuses cut passenger traffic particularly on short runs, and finally airplanes arrived to cut long distance Pullman travel...
...Rail management, mostly flabby and bureaucratic, generally opposes any move to cut the number of management jobs...
...husky moose-hunting Luther Mason Walter, operating trustee of Chicago Great Western, one of the chronically anemic roads in the great midwestern bankruptcy belt. Mr. Walter's complaint: the Midwestern roads are not getting their fair share of charges on transcontinental hauls, get a lean, unprofitable cut while the roads at the eastern and western ends take the big slices...