Word: slash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swept from the seas by Depression, nearly one-half the world's ships ride at anchor, rust-streaked and dingy. Dwindling water-borne commerce has forced the great shipping lines to lay up ships, slash services, cooperate with traditional rivals in eliminating duplicate runs. When these economies failed to shore up crumbling merchant marines, pride and profit have dictated mergers. North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American signed a 50-year pact partitioning their North Atlantic trade. In his Fascist forge Benito Mussolini hammered three big Italian firms into the Italia Line, cocky owner...
...press by client publicity men. The forewoman pronounces carefully the names of new clients. Each new name is thus declaimed twice every day for a week. A girl does not clip, only pencils clients' items. The whole paper is then passed to a group of boys who slash deftly with razor-sharp knives, paste the clippings on dated slips. A second staff of girls sorts the clippings into pigeonholes for mailing...
Union Rejects Wage Slash...
...distant beat of tom-toms, 72 to a minute and he will start supposedly into a forest, spend his first bullet at thick of night on formless, brightwood creatures who will mock him. His second bullet will go for a Pullman porter, dead long before from a razor-slash in a crap game; his third for a prison-guard whose head he has already bashed with a shovel; his fourth and fifth for an auctioneer and a planter trying, he will imagine, to thrust him back into slavery. Rather than sacrifice himself at the command of a Congo witch-doctor...
...Arthur would: 1) extend the Hoover Moratorium into "a Moratorium long enough to cover any probable period of the Depression and a subsequent period of recovery"; 2) preserve the formalities of Germany's obligations to pay the Allies and their obligations to pay the U. S.; 3) slash these obligations by reducing them to the same drastic extent that world prices have fallen; 4) accept Germany's payment of her slashed obligations chiefly in dividends from additionally created common stock of the German State Railways and other basic industries. In years when no dividend is paid, according to Sir Arthur...