Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That's how I came to read Tristram Shandy-which I did not enjoy. So I returned . . . to G. B. Stern and for 15 years she's been my favorite authoress. Once I had lunch with her at Albany, Piccadilly. It was a slap-up meal with the nicest steak I've ever eaten...
...order was a direct slap at General Motors and Ford, which only a week before had turned down Valentine's request to suspend their price increases (TIME, Dec. 18). But it also affected Chrysler and Nash, which had raised prices last week...
...workingman to buy a car. With no real documentation to back him up, Reuther said that the "meat-ax approach" of Regulation W, plus cutbacks in critical materials, would throw no less than 321,000 auto workers out of work. Reuther had a meat-ax approach of his own: slap immediate controls on everything except wages...
Sharp Cuts. This week the Administration planned to slap on new credit controls designed to trim the rate of new housing starts from the current 1,400,000 a year to 800,000. That alone would free about $3 billion worth of materials and thousands of workers. In fact, builders already had cut back so sharply that some of them were warning that existing controls will carry "deflation" in building too far (see Housing...
...Congress adjourned after passing the $4.5 billion emergency tax bill, it made a solemn promise to itself: as soon as it comes back after the November elections, it would slap a retroactive excess profits tax on U.S. business to "take the profits...