Word: slash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conference itself was conspicuous for its lack of New Deal animosity. A good many sessions were devoted to familiar Chemurgician products like soy beans, tung oil (for paint), Jerusalem artichokes (for alcohol), slash pine (for paper). A "Pioneer Cup" was awarded to Leo Hendrik Baekeland, father of the plastic industry (Bakelite), though that aging chemist did not bother to come out of his Florida retirement to receive it in person. Mr. Garvan delivered his usual harangue in favor of blending alcohol with gasoline. But most of the speakers were either technical experts or working vice presidents of corporations...
Senator McKellar of the Senate Appropriations Committee protested yesterday that J. Edgar Hoover's "G" men were running wild with Government money, and he advocated a $225,000 slash in the Department of Justice allotment for the coming year. Mr. Hoover appeared in person to defend these charges, and insisted that any cut in governmental appropriation would encourage a new crime wave, as well as seriously hamper the Department's work...
...competitive with other forms of transportation. The railroads, of course, desire exactly the same thing. They agree in principle that the only "out" for them is to reduce rates. However, very reasonably, they desire a compromise rate between the old schedule of 3.6 cents a mile and the proposed slash to 2 cents a mile. The suggested compromise of 2.5 cents a mile is sensible, for too drastic action at this time may deliver the coup de grace instead of being restorative...
...that time Southerners used only one method of getting pitch out of a pine tree: Slash the trunk about waisthigh, let it drip into buckets. Some 12,000 farmers are still collecting pitch by gashing their pines with "catfaces" and having it distilled into 80% of the naval stores produced in the U. S.* In the early 1900's, when Southern lumbering was at its peak, a new steam process for extracting turpentine directly from, sawmill waste was introduced, and a new byproduct, pine oil, not present in the gum of the living tree, was found. It is this...
...sailing back into the ring. Tardieu began a comeback with the peculiar maneuver of resigning from the Republican Centre Party and attacking its President Paul Reynaud for having attacked fortnight ago Premier Pierre Laval and the Hoare-Laval Deal to dismember Ethiopia (TIME, Jan. 6). The effect of this slash from a claw of "Tiger" Clemenceau's cub was that within 24 hours M. Reynaud was obliged to resign his Party's Presidency and demands were heard that M. Tardieu be elected his successor...