Word: drastic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country had asked for a change, and some pretty drastic changes were in the making. Republican leaders interpreted the people's angry anti-Administration vote as an enthusiastic pro-Republican vote as well. Last week, as G.O.P. steering committeemen bustled around Washington, a lot of campaign promises and as many threats began to assume solid shape...
Behind the drastic shakeup, which lopped 80 names off the Sun's payroll last week, was a drastic decision. For five long years, silver-maned, gold-lined Publisher Field had patiently pumped his millions into his losing battle with the mighty Chicago Tribune, and the Trib had neither reformed nor weakened (in fact, the same day the Sun fired 80, the Trib gave its white-collar staff of 1,589 a blanket 20% raise). Field had many millions left, but he was tired of spending them. His ultimatum: the Sun must shine by itself...
...Austin and Vishinsky arrived early. In a corner of the committee room they talked earnestly through their interpreters. Later, Vishinsky reversed his stand, declared that Russia would not oppose discussion of the matter by the Assembly. The Russians were not taking any risk; Vishinsky knew Austin would not support drastic changes in the veto power...
...strike's second day Prime Minister Smuts summoned his Cabinet, later declared: "I'm not unduly concerned . . . the strike was not caused by legitimate grievances but by agitators." Immediately after the meeting drastic measures were taken to break the strike. Armed police descended a thousand feet into the dim stopes of one mine, drove up, level by level, some 1,000 sit-down strikers. Backed by a law forbidding gatherings of more than 20 natives on mine property, police quickly smashed mass meetings. Other cops swept through the Communists' and Springbok Legion's (a progressive veterans...
...long statement on Mexico's oil problem last week, President-elect Miguel Aleman omitted such comments but hinted that mismanaged Pemex was due for drastic overhaul. It was gossiped that Pemex was losing $100,000 a day; it teemed with high-salaried, incompetent political lame ducks; it was constantly in trouble with labor. And in eight years it had failed to fit the oil industry into the domestic economy. It was still geared for export. Its pipelines ran down to the sea instead of to home markets in the big inland cities. A new refinery outside Mexico City would...