Word: slash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year to talk to British voters of budget retrenchments. But he is no vote-monger; he is an able financier, an insurance man. In the report which his committee presented was the blunt warning: "The nation cannot go on borrowing to meet its current requirements." He urged a budget slash of $469,370,000. Labor's Big Five studied the May report sourly last week, looking for some economies which could be put in force without costing political necks...
...flavor to be expected by Colyumist Doherty's colyums was indicated by a double-page spread in the Journal-Post, a copy of a fierce letter from Tycoon Doherty to the trustees of the Star, which had agitated the fight in Kansas to slash Cities Service gas rates. (The trustees-Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde, Jesse Clyde Nichols & Herbert B. Jones-had negotiated the sale of the Star by the estate of the late Founder William Rockhill Nelson to the present employes and management, headed by snake-hating George Baker Longan.) Excerpts from the letter...
...Budget Slash. At the time of the German loan discussions in Paris three weeks ago, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson blurted out a statement that nearly caused his resignation from the Cabinet: "If Germany declared a moratorium, England will be forced also to declare a moratorium...
...Franco-U. S. credit to the Bank of England. But if Britons needed any further knowledge of their country's precarious finances it came at Westminster when on the day that Parliament adjourned the Government's Economy Commission, appointed last spring, presented its recommendations for an immediate slash of $469,370,000 in the budget...
...Heidelberg, where flows the Neckar. the Neckar overflowed last week. While Heidelburghers in the lower part of the city sloshed through streets deep in yellow water, slash cheeked korpsstudenten rushed from beer garden to beer garden with the news that the enormous floating bathhouses that line the Heidelberg quaysides were doomed. Thousands went down to the docks to watch...