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Word: slash (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story spread across sleepy Lake County like fire in a stand of slash pine. By nightfall all the county knew that Willie Padgett's 17-year-old wife had been raped by four Negroes; two of the suspects were already locked up in the county jail at Tavares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Murmur in the Streets | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Though the summer's first heat wave helped the sales of Goodall Co.'s famed lightweight Palm Beach suits, it left Goodall's President Elmer L. Ward cold as a haddock. To clear the decks for a new, improved suit this fall, he decided to slash his "fair-trade" (i.e., fixed) prices by 29%, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Storm Over Palm Beach | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Think About Asia. Last week a stream of Senators took the floor to slash at the bankrupt U.S. policy toward China. Twenty-one Senators signed a statement demanding assurances that the U.S. would not recognize the Chinese Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Other Side of the World | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...depression" regarding our present business situation. It seems to me that by using these terms we are talking ourselves into a good, all-out depression. This sort of talk scares customers . . . They tighten up their purse strings and wait for more price cuts. Businessmen begin to worry and slash payrolls needlessly. Pretty soon the scare builds up like a snowball going downhill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1949 | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

Seek Cost Slash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Girls Must Do More Manual Labor Next Year | 5/17/1949 | See Source »

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