Word: slash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good fencing terms. Last year, Peroy built a top-flight squad that lost only to Cornell and Yale--the latter game by a heavily-disputed one point. Last year also produced a team that pulled as many Three-Musketeer antics as a fencing team can. John Gay used to slash his saber as if he were swatting mosquitoes in a Cuban jungle. Red McNeil had his own little trick. He'd lunge out with a saber and then roll onto his back to escape the counterpunch. It was unconventional and it looked good, even if it was kid stuff...
...very few hundred dollars," will be for the quick, economical reproduction of letters, documents, blueprints, maps, etc., in offices. Many bugs have to be worked out before Xerography can do more. Eventually, Haloid hopes to produce cameras which print their photographs almost instantaneously, and light, cheap presses which will slash capital investments and operating costs in the newspaper and magazine publishing industry...
Expecting a natural decline in accordance with the cyclical theory, McNair said that a budget slash plus possible tax increases would avoid "irreparable long-term damage to the economy, which would be the result of additional governmental controls...
Manufacturers insisted they could not help. New England and Southern mill owners, who had just upped wages 8%, complained that prices were already too low. Rather than slash them more, they cut back production. Four-day work weeks and layoffs became common in the industry...
...foot the bills? With employment at an all-time peak, most sellers thought they would. But in the entertainment and resort businesses, which are usually the first to feel price resistance, there were contrary signs. In Chicago last week, row upon row of empty seats forced Balaban & Katz to slash some prices almost 50% in its six Loop moviehouses. The Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce complained that many visitors were so intent on cutting expenses that they slept in their cars overnight...