Word: lopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With combined production of nearly 400,000 units a year, it will be more than twice as big as its nearest British competitor, Ford's subsidiary. Though their sales organizations will be merged, the two firms will continue to make separate models; eventually, however, they will lop off models that compete with each other...
...that aspires to more professional standards, simply because such games will draw more fans and hence more money. That is why Harvard's schedule next year will include teams whose athletic policies more closely resemble our own. This move will solve one aspect of the problem--the consistently lop-sided scores--but it will not satisfy the people who want to see Harvard restored to its football eminence of several decades...
United Air Lines this week was forced to ground its six DC-6Bs, the line's biggest and fastest planes, and lop 9,300 miles off its normal 188,000 miles of flying schedules. Reason: the pilots would not fly them unless they got extra...
...Friden Calculating Machine Co. has developed a mechanical calculator which, for the first time, can do such tricks as extracting the square root of a ten-digit number in nine seconds without the help of printed tables. The machine (about the size of a large typewriter) will lop many man-hours off complicated calculations needed for guided missiles, gun sights, aircraft, etc. Price: about...
...casually as a switching engineman shunting a string of milk cars into a siding, the Pennsylvania Railroad announced last week that it will lop 40 passenger trains off its schedules, effective July 8. Twenty-five commuter trains will be dropped from Philadelphia's heavily traveled Main Line and other suburban areas; long-distance service in & out of Pittsburgh will be reduced by seven trains, and cuts will be made on trains going into Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore and Buffalo. The Pennsy's explanation was curt and businesslike: it is losing money on passenger traffic and thinks that...