Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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proim. A prime cut of meat in Brooklyn that too often tastes like hawss-meat. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Cheaters...
...counterforce [in Europe] to the Soviet force is ended. We cannot create such a counterforce with ground forces in Europe and in the U.S. separated by the Atlantic Ocean . . . Khrushchev says, 'This is a matter on which a compromise is possible. I don't have to cut all your throats; I only need to cut a half of your throat.' This is the kind of thing into which we are being led by the incredible view that any sort of negotiation is good per se." In only one area, said Acheson, can negotiation really benefit the West...
After the meeting, McElroy told newsmen that the Air Force and Navy would each be cut by 5,000 men next year. Almost casually, he raised the NATO-jarring prospect of eventual reduction of the U.S.'s 650,000-man forces overseas. "It is possible over a period of time that other NATO countries will increase their contributions of strength, and that they may come to the conclusion that it might be to their own advantage that we deploy forces elsewhere." But such a decision, McElroy indicated happily, would fall in some future budget maker...
Pigtoes & Secrets. With $500,000 capital, Pearls Proprietary Ltd. chose an isolated bay, named in honor of Pearler Kuribayashi, brought in an experienced team of 36 to start work. Into the big shells the pearlers inserted a special bead of shell cut from a big Mississippi River "pigtoe" mussel, then grafted in a piece of oyster flesh that was already exuding pearl-forming nacre. The first crop from the 100,000 oysters was harvested secretly in June 1958, and the results were staggering. Though only 30% of the seeded oysters produced pearls, there were thousands of big, beautiful pearls...
Many a U.S. railroadman believes that the answer to the problem lies not in charges or recriminations, but in a joint effort on both sides to discover how featherbedding practices can be eliminated without undue hardship. The industry favors a plan adopted by Canadian railroads, which has helped cut down featherbedding by not replacing firemen working on freights or in the yards who have died or retired. Privately, many railroadmen concede that the U.S. situation is not entirely the unions' fault; U.S. railroads are often run inefficiently, with management clinging to ancient practices as fervently as do the unions...