Word: slash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan that afternoon the Board of Estimate wasted no time in effecting much-needed savings in a city budget unbalanced to the tune of $31,000,000. The bill permitted the board to slash the city's expenditures some $13,000,000 by salary reductions, furloughs, consolidation of departments, abolition of useless jobs, of which 1,010 were abolished at once. What made the bill seem a puny thing to the Mayor was that such populous and politically potent city departments as Transit and Education had been exempted by the Legislature from pay cuts and reorganization...
...Frenchmen subscribe to those sentiments, but all were startled at the text of the 14 decrees. To slash government expenditures Premier Doumergue was preparing to retire one out of every ten government employes and to cut all Federal salaries. Politically it was playing with dynamite. In France with a population of 42,000,000 there are nearly as many non-military government employes as all the non-military Federal plus all the State employes in the U. S.* One Frenchman in 53 works for the Government. By lowering the compulsory retirement age. approximately 85,000 of these will be removed...
...nature uncontrollable, and two, that Mussolini is a power unto himself, the second question will appear wholly gratuitous. But to the remaining minority the query will have its point. Even though the wage cutting scheme be inferior to the price-raising, alternative, II Duce might infinitely prefer to slash at the defenceless proletariat in the usual fashion rather than tread so heavily on the toes of his fixed-income supporters. Even though wage-cutting, as R. G. Hawtrey has pointed out from his eyrie in the Bank of England may not prove sufficient to increase exports to any appreciable degree...
Arise and slash your thralldom chains...
...outside and white within. England cannot stand the burden of more social legislation, but the party if it has a majority, cannot hesitate to demand it. As with Labour governments of the near past, all the pressure from the Treasury will be exerted on them to slash what relief provisions are now outstanding; but the party will not dare to follow their commands again. "Gradualism in reverse gear"--that is what Strachey so aptly called it; and will the rank-and-file stand for that next time? Will it consent to have labour representatives doing the dirty work...