Word: slash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...titanium and its lightweight cousin, zirconium. National Distillers will bring to the merger its new $24 million plant for titanium and zirconium sponge and a cushioning $22,650,000 Atomic Energy Commission contract for zirconium, which is used in reactors. More important, National has found a way to slash the sponges' high cost by using liquid sodium instead of magnesium in the reduction process. Together, the two companies hope to have enough resources (assets: $55 million) to cut costs and to develop civilian uses for the metal whose military market is being cut back...
With the eat-'em-ups and the slash-'em-ups proving by good grosses that there is plenty of room at the bottom (said one flabbergasted distributor: "I don't get it; I can't even stand to look at the stills"), the next step in low, lowbrow cinema was a marriage of the undead with the underdone: I Was a Teenage Werewolf (Herman Cohen; American-International). Plot synopsis: a mad psychiatrist turns a sensitive adolescent into a hairy, ravening beast. Says 30-year-old Producer Cohen: "I heard that 62% of the movie audience...
...originally requested) mutual-aid authorization bill, a whole new set of distress signals began flapping around the White House early in the week. In the legislative wonderland, "authorization" is a far cry from actual appropriations, and White House liaison men reported that a House appropriations subcommittee was about to slash foreign aid even below the authorization total. Ike was disturbed. "This is no lighthearted matter," he told associates. "The very integrity, the very safety of the U.S. rests upon this undertaking...
...Damn Thing." But the President's pleas, including a public statement issued on the day the House was to vote on foreign-aid appropriations, seemed only to irritate the Democratic leadership of the House. Said Louisiana's Democratic Representative Otto Passman, leader of the forces aiming to slash foreign aid: "What the President wants does not mean a damn thing to me unless it makes sense." Growled Speaker Sam Rayburn: "Sometimes Congressmen shoot and cut in another direction if they are not in good humor." And Mr. Sam made it clear that he was in a foul humor...
...present record employment of 27,000; it will only keep it from climbing to the new peak that had been expected. The stretch-outs, in total, will cause far fewer layoffs than earlier anticipated. Last week the Pentagon estimated that this year's $1 billion to $1.5 billion slash in aircraft orders will trim the industry's payroll by 5%-a drop of 40,000 workers from the total 800,000. Since the industry has a high labor turnover, much of this cut will be accomplished simply by not replacing workers who quit. By year...