Word: slash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skirmish started when FCC charged the company had "excess earnings," should therefore slash "burdensome rates" on long-distance calls. Retorted A.T.&T. : lower rates would "stimulate traffic at a time when such stimulation would be contrary to public interest." With business running 33% above last year, the company's lines are already so talkpacked that additional calls could be handled only with more scarce equipment, more hard-to-get manpower. Besides, said A.T.&T., profits are down, not up - FCC "erroneously treated as earnings" over $50,000,000 which the company must pay in Federal taxes...
After the cards on the table have been examined, the board starts with a proposal to slash profits 25%, 50%, or maybe more. The manufacturer counter-proposes. If all the high cards belong to one side, the game is over fast. Usually the businessman asks for a hearing before the top Washington board. Since Washington is the last chance, most contractors go armed with an arsenal of facts, ready for a last-ditch fight. They usually get it. One small steel company spent two twelve-hour days arguing with the top board, got only an invitation for a return visit...
...Congress'. For a year he had done little more than they to control inflation and they felt he had passed the buck to them. And now particularly, when they had just whipped the farm bloc in a bitter battle, the President's words were like the slash of a riding crop across the face. This held not only for his own supporters in Congress but for those Republicans who had fought beside them for the sake of the nation's welfare...
...keep out of the army, conscripts have been known to chop off fingers, toes, hands, feet, have all their teeth pulled (suspicious examiners always check with the malingerer's dentist), puncture their eardrums, blind an eye with acids or alkalis, slash tendons, break bones in their arms and legs. Detection is often simple: a deliberate eardrum puncture, for example, will never occupy quite the same spot as one acquired from blast concussion...
...pigs with glistening ten-inch knives. They wear white uniforms, rubber aprons, and galoshes. Many are European-born, many have sons in the fighting forces. The plant is on a 24-hour basis, supplying meat to the United Nations' armies. When the war news is bad, they sometimes slash at the pigs as if they had Hitler himself in their grasp. Then production soars...