Word: slash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deduction of its own direct expenses, was a record $8 million-more than half the total net earnings of all 18 U.S. domestic airlines. Next year the division will probably earn a cool $22 million or perhaps better, thanks mostly to an ace in the hole: Though it will slash rates paid to the airlines, it will probably maintain the present 6? airmail letter rate to U.S. citizens...
...Rommel fled, Allied forces in central Tunisia jabbed at the Axis flanks, trying to slash through to the coast and intercept him. Along the edge of the Axis corridor, the fighting showed signs of developing into a major conflict. But at week's end determined German resistance still kept the corridor open for Rommel's escape. His junction with General Jurgin von Arnim, uniting some 130.000 Axis troops in a strong position, seemed certain...
...East Coast householders last week fretted and froze over the fuel oil problem, they at least had one big consolation: thousands of nonwar businesses were in trouble too. OPA's order to slash oil use up to 40% was playing havoc with hotels and laundries, stores and office buildings with their own private power plants, semi-war industries like paper mills and textile dyers. Examples...
Above the thin shimmering water-slash of a rising moon, a U.S. Flying Fortress thundered into the Jap harbor at Rabaul one night several months ago to make the first test in the South Pacific of a new technique-"skip-bombing...
Harry Byrd and the economy boys will be hard put to it to slash much more from these figures. The WPA and the CCC, the Rural Electrification Commission and the National Youth Administration, are all officially dead. Finding other sources for governmental economy would be a tedious task of investigating each of the Departments and Agencies in order to see whether they could save a couple of bucks by rebending unbent paper clips. Such an investigation would probably cost as much as could be saved, and would absorb valuable time and effort in charge and counter-charge inside the sweltering...