Word: slash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notion that Potsdam once & for all had turned Germany into a country of fields and pastures, with a factory here & there to relieve the bucolic monotony. Actually, under the general terms of the Potsdam Agreement, Germany could have a substantial light industry. The Potsdam objective was to slash Germany's heavy industrial war potential. The Germans were to live at a level "not exceeding" the European average. Potsdam specifically provided for German imports to meet "Germany's approved postwar peacetime needs." What were the approved needs? What was the average living standard? Obviously the Potsdam policy needed interpretation...
...Zenith. Two years after Main Street, Novelist Lewis did a similar job for the U.S. small city (Zenith) and the U.S. businessman. George F. Babbitt, the rotund realtor, trapped in the dilemmas of middle-aged marriage and infidelity and the saurian rip and slash of pitiless business competition, was Lewis' most human and lovable character, as Babbitt was his most mature work...
Impatient Populace. The spread of the Vigilante idea among law-abiding Britons was symptomatic of their fast-ebbing patience with continuing war restrictions.* The Brighton pioneers, had shown how to slash through the jungle of legal red tape that was keeping usable houses vacant. But it would need more than a practical protest to relieve the country's acute housing pains. There was a physical shortage of nearly a million houses, which only new construction (estimated to take four years) could provide. But the Guv'nor and his Vigilantes were a warning: Britain's new Government, Tory...
Fortnight ago the House, led by Republicans and prodded by the Scripps-Howard press, cut OWI's appropriation from $42,000,000 to $18,000,000 - a slash which would just about end OWI's activities in Europe and at home. But last week, as the Senate Appropriations Com mittee pondered this action,-a galaxy of stars swooped to OWI's rescue...
...some U.S. businessmen, a taste of V-E day came unexpectedly last week. It arrived in the form of a wire from the Army Air Forces ordering an overall 15% slash in plane production. Reason: the Army has almost enough Flying Fortress and Liberator bombers to finish off Germany, will go into the stepped-up war against Japan with a new line of both bombers and fighters (see U.S. AT WAR). If the cutback goes through as planned, it will be the first actual downturn in the plane program since the war began...