Word: slash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MOSCOW, October 16--A slash of $10,571,000,000 in next year's Russian defense budget, along with a hike of about $566,000,000 for scientific research "for further growth of the economic and military might of the Soviet Union" was recommended by Finance Minister A. G. Zverev in proposals published today...
...economy slash by Harry Truman had made the ralliers taste blood. In addition to $202 million left over from wartime grants, a generous 79th Congress had dumped $309 million more into a Federal kitty for the improvement of rivers, harbors and flood control. The President, during his thrifty August mood, had daringly told the Treasury not to pay out more than $185 million during this election year...
...cream puff, the kind known here as a creme bomba. That bomb exploded into a riot. Hundreds of fellow students attacked the shop that sold the poisoned cake. Two days later, the outbreak had turned into a citywide protest against profiteering and high prices, a demand for a 50% slash in prices or else. Thousands of cariocas, armed with bricks and clubs, took vengeance on the places they could not afford to patronize. The swank Roxy Theater, showing Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, had its glass front smashed, its lobby wrecked...
...Janeiro, 36-year-old José Lourival de Santana had no such luck. José's nose had been neatly amputated by a burglar's well-aimed razor slash. He was rushed to a hospital. A tidy policeman dropped the nose into a garbage can. Young Dr. Paulo Marques de Souza thought José's nose could be saved. First it had to be found. It was-after six hours among the garbage...
...watch such scarce items as men's suits, topcoats and dress shirts skyrocket in price. You say that competition-not Government regulation-is a factor in preventing inflation. The mentioned apparel is so scarce that it would be asinine to believe that competitors would immediately slash prices when they know they can all get and maintain higher prices. True, after a period of time, supply equaling demand, prices will take care of themselves without regulation. But in the interim the consumer would take a sound beating...