Word: slash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rough game, mainly because the players discovered they could get away with a trip or a slash now and then. However, when Charley Gregg collected a two minute sentence for trying to dent a Tufts player's helmet, most of the Crimson violence evaporated...
Esso Cuts. Esso Standard Oil Co., last of the industry to hike prices last fall, was also the first to slash them again. It cut the prices of more than 350 products (bottled gas, roofing asphalts, industrial lubricants, etc.) from 5% to 25%. By week's end Shell Oil Co., Inc. had followed Esso Standard's lead. Unchanged: the price of gasoline...
...Congress decided last week that the grave state of world affairs did not preclude income tax reductions. Hoping to make new witholding rates effective on May 1-even if a presidential veto had to be overridden to do it -the Senate plunged into debate on its bill to slash taxes by $4.8 billion. A handful of Democrats tried to stall the Republican timetable. Wyoming's Joe O'Mahoney proposed an amendment to restore taxes on excess profits. Arkansas' J. William Fulbright and South Carolina's Burnet Maybank, both irked because the House Agriculture Committee had killed...
...endowment can be increased to provide more income, and student income can be increased. The first two have been attempted on almost every level. Such things as museum staff's and departmental budgets have been cut to the marrow, sometimes with unfortunate effects, as in the ease of the slash in tutorial. But the total costs continue to rise--employee wages and faculty salaries have gone up, as have heat, electricity, books, and so on up and down and throughout the list of necessary expenditures...
...likely to earn. British planners know that a day of terrible decision will arrive about April 1. Unless by then ERP is not only assured, but aid's arrival is guaranteed by a definite early date (midsummer or early fall), the British Government will have to slash imports. It can no longer afford to shovel in some $200 million a month of dwindling gold and dollar reserves to fill the trade...