Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year since 1919, trucking to & from the city had zoomed to the point where trucks were hauling two tons of freight to the railroads' one. So serious was this turnabout that the Authority warned motor carriers that they had better build big motortruck terminals in order to cut operating costs and reduce traffic congestion...
...annual tin imports (more than 75,000 tons in a "normal" year, 45% of the world's yearly production) comes from Asia, 18% from Europe, practically all of it is smelted in the British and Dutch empires. War at sea might cut it off. Already shipments from Singapore have been partly rerouted. The U. S. supply of tin is limited to tin-plate scrap reclaimed from U. S. junk piles, but that yields only about 30% of U. S. needs...
...Brooklyn Phelps Dodge is already producing 100 tons a month. American Metal expects to follow it into production. Both companies deliberately put themselves under a handicap by using low-grade Bolivian ore rather than good Malayan ore, which may be cut off by the tin trust. This increases smelting costs so much that the U. S. State Department, which loves to promote trade with Latin America, has never helped it, believing it would be uneconomic...
Nick Charles reluctantly interrupts his drinking this time when guests of harumphing Colonel Burr McFay (C. Aubrey Smith) are awakened by a shot to find that the old man's throat has been cut. Suspect are various heirs and retainers of McFay and a clammy Cuban (Sheldon Leonard) who has perfected the cutest blackmailing trick of the year. He dreams twice that people die. If he dreams it a third time they do. So he assesses people to keep him from dreaming. By the time Nick has spent a quiet week catching the murderer, he has had a knife...
...commercially as the old partnership had been artistically. In 1900 he got a best seller, George Ade's More Fables in Slang. Next year he got another in George Barr McCutcheon's Graustark. Year following came the sensational Story of Mary MacLane. Then Publisher Stone decided to cut corners, pay less attention to experimental writers, add cheap reprints, and he published a magazine called The House Beautiful. (The Chap-Book had folded in the Spanish-American War.) Four years later with "nothing of importance coming out," Publisher Stone sold his tottering business to a now-extinct Manhattan publisher...