Word: slash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House got in the first and most serious licks. Its Foreign Affairs Committee, in a turbulent closed meeting, tentatively agreed to recommend a bill authorizing an expenditure of only $489 million. Italy's budget would bear the brunt of this slash. All told, Italy would be cut $87 million (from $227 to $140 million), on the grounds that 1) her farmers were hoarding around a million tons of wheat, and 2) her outlook for olive oil production was much improved...
...brand new cataloguing and charging system will slash time consumption in the new Lamont Library, Keyes de W. Metcalf, Director of the University Library, said yesterday. Actual construction of the library is on schedule so far, but allowing for setbacks of labor, materials, and weather, Metcalf says "we would be overly optimistic if we expected it to open before January...
...Geneva conference did more than just slash tariffs. It chopped hard at the hedgerows of other national restrictions which impede trade. One basic principle adopted by the conferees was the provision that all the negotiators would benefit from, any tariff cuts granted. They also put a ceiling on such restrictive regional agreements as the British system of lower rates within the Empire...
...fiancé in the U.S., Gitte procured a packing box 29 inches long by 21 inches deep. She bored some air holes in it, equipped it with inside latches, stocked it with sleeping pills, four slices of black bread, a jar of tea and some razor blades (to slash her wrists in case the worst came to the worst). Then Sigrid sent for Private Robert Siedentopf, a friendly G.I. who worked in the same Army dispensary as Gitte...
...Wallace decided to slash the price, make up the difference by taking ads. This was tried in a Spanish-language edition for Latin America in December 1940. It sold so well (it now guarantees 1,000,000 circulation) that the Digest has followed it with 13 other editions* in eight different languages. The editorial content is the same as the U.S. edition (circ. 8,000,000) but more so: it is further digested, to about two-thirds the domestic size...