Word: slash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doorstep. The Communists continued to slash at the arteries of China's economic life. Red General Chen Yi dashed from Shantung Province into the river valleys of neighboring Honan. Almost before Nationalists knew he was on the move, Chen's three columns converged on Honan's capital city of Kaifeng, garrisoned by a single government regiment...
...shares belonged to the late Jules S. Bache, longtime Dome Mines president. Michel, trustee of the estate, had sold the stock to pay estate taxes. He had not foreseen the dividend slash (it was forced by a rise in Canada's cost-of-living index, to which the company's wage scale is tied). Obviously, said Michel, after what had happened the decent thing was to take back the stock. That was just what he had done...
...Indirection. Earlier in the week, Vandenberg had rushed to the rescue of ECA itself. Appearing at his own request before the Senate Appropriations Committee, he sharply and eloquently denounced the House's $2 billion slash in funds for European recovery (TIME, June...
...President properly vetoed. The Senate's bitter fight over confirmation of AEC Chairman David Lilienthal had been no credit to the 80th Congress. The House had dragged its feet on foreign aid, twice had almost upset the applecart (with its vote to include Spain in ECA, its slash in ECA appropriations). No one was proud of the 15% "voluntary" rent-control bill. Action on housing and admission of D.P.s was long overdue. Congress' investigations had yielded more publicity than malefactors, had sometimes seemed to be planned that...
...prices rose while the College kept down its tuition, the increased cost of a College education was met by slashing the quality of the education offered. One such slash was the abolition of the tutorial program in the Department of Economics. Now the University has elected to meet increased costs through a tuition hike. In return for the higher tuition extracted from them, students have the right to expect a restoration of pre-war quality in the education opportunities offered them...