Word: slash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stalingrad front Bock was at a disadvantage in transportation. Railways networked behind the Russian lines and the mighty Volga gave the Red army much better access to supplies. But the weight of men & materials was on BOCK'S side. The prize, a chance to slash across the Volga, was worthy of his bloodiest efforts. More important to Russia than the Mississippi is to the U.S.. the Volga on its broad back carries the steel, oil. ore. tanks, guns and food of a vast chain of industrial cities stretching from its headwaters, between Leningrad and Moscow, to the salty...
...House Appropriations Committee subcommittee was on its ear now. It whacked some more. Tough old John Taber of New York took up his snickersnee, whacked $130 millions off with one slash. But the auction settled down at $95 million; then the full committee sliced it to $75,000,000 before the bill went to the House floor. Fighters Taber and Oklahoma's Jed Johnson, veteran Henderson-haters, vowed to carry on, fight right to the House floor. Their goal: to see to it that Henderson got by on what was finally approved, to make him use volunteer price watchers...
...Suits with shorter jackets, with slash instead of patch pockets, kick-pleat instead of box-pleat skirts...
Last week the subsidy question was all tangled up with patronage. Congress was in a rage because Leon had tried to be nonpolitical with his OPA appointments-the biggest potential patronage pool the U.S. has seen in years. To "discipline" him Congress got set to slash his $161,000,000 budget to finance his price-control army. It had also refused to authorize subsidies for any price-ceiling casualties except primary producers (like farmers). And it had refused to vote any money at all for any kind of price-ceiling subsidy...
...wreck of Burma last week came Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell. When the outside world had last heard of him, "Uncle Joe" and his Chinese Fifth and Sixth Armies were cut off, and had swung north in a, ferocious slash at the back...