Word: slash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slash. Sinclair Lewis has scarcely ever put pen to paper without causing controversy; this time, he has thrown himself so furiously into the battle against anti-Negro discrimination that he is likely to arouse the noisiest whirlwind of his career...
Commerce's Civil Aeronautics Administration was mutilated almost beyond recognition. Despite congressional concern over air safety, the Taber committee recommended a $70.5 million slash in CAA funds, which would mean that after July 1 CAA could no longer maintain airport control towers (except in Washington). Its program for modernization of navigation aids would be cut in half. Observed the committee: "Air accidents will only be eliminated when people stop flying...
...thing Republicans of both houses had in mind was a tidy present for U.S. taxpayers. How big the total budget slash would ultimately be, it was too early to tell. But Republicans were counting on its being big enough to justify the sizable cut they contemplated in income taxes. The tax program was being whipped into final shape. The Senate Finance Committee approved the House's tax bill with one major change. Instead of being retroactive to Jan. 1, cuts ranging from 30% in the lower brackets to 10.5% in the upper brackets would not take effect until July...
...sold to 20th Century-Fox and grossed Au thor Frank Yerby something like $250,000). The hero of The Vixens is lean and hard; he moves with controlled grace, and he says everything softly. The girl is slim and golden, her mouth is a splash (some times a slash) of scarlet, and her perfume is faint, elusive. These two daydreams, so happily cast on any Hollywood lot or in any adolescent's bedroom, are naturally not to be frustrated by a lot of gunplay and dastardy in post-Civil War New Or leans...
...feel that the plan is working out well, and we intend to stick with it," was the official word on the 10-percent price slash at the store. "Our customers are all pleased that we have followed President Truman's voluntary price reduction program, and the resulting increased volume of sales has more than made up for our diminished profit margin...