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Word: slash (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Last of the Barkers | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: K-F Cuts | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Break | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Shakeout | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy Officials Meet on Dorm, Food Problems | 1/25/1949 | See Source »

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