Word: slash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barker's only failure. She could barely read or write, but she taught all her boys to rob and kill and keep their mouths shut. She loved them all with a twisted, violent affection, but she was quite capable of coldly permitting a crooked, drunken physician to slash her favorite Freddie's fingers in a vain effort to alter his fingerprints...
...spur slumping sales, Kaiser-Frazer Corp. last week took a bold step: it cut auto prices 10% to 15%, by far the biggest reductions made by any automaker since the war. The slash brought the list price of the lowest-priced model, the Kaiser special, to $1,995-a drop of $333. The smallest reduction was $198 on the Frazer. The company said that "starting up" costs had been absorbed and that steel end auto parts were now available at lower prices...
General Motors surprised the motor industry, and everyone else, last week by cutting the price of its cars. It was not a deep slash-from $10 on Chevrolets to $40 on Cadillacs-but it was a cut, nevertheless. Light and medium trucks, which are getting harder to sell, were reduced...
...drop was not only in foods. Some oil companies, in their fourth successive slash in the price of fuel oil, brought the total cut to about 33%. In two months lumber had felt its biggest price spill since war's end. Prices of secondhand automobiles, both "new" and used, came tumbling down. Dealers were so overstocked with "new-used" 1949 models in the higher-priced cars that they had cut their buying offers to 10% and 15% below list prices...
Officials of the Ivy League colleges will consider how to slash dormitory operating costs and improve dining hall management at a meeting at Cornell today and tomorrow...