Word: slash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate added a provision barring any person convicted under the act from "holding any office of honor, trust or profit under the U.S.," returned the bill to the House for final passage. ¶ Pass, in the House, a resolution making "In God We Trust" the U.S. motto. ¶ Slash, in the House Appropriations Committee, $56.8 million from Administration requests for the State and Justice Departments and the U.S. Information Agency. The committee refused to authorize two new prisons, snorted at a State Department request to buy an unspecified number of "executive wastebaskets" at $27 each, turned down...
When Reed took over, American Express was suffering from the impact of World War II, which had forced it to close 100 offices, slash its staff. Charging ahead with postwar expansion plans, he cut back executive deadwood, hired all the bright young men he could find, started sending G.I.s around Europe on tours months before V-E day. Under Reed, American Express traveler's check sales have climbed 20% a year (1955 total: about $2.3 billion), outsell competitors' checks three to one. Money orders, available at 24,330 outlets (v. 12,800 in 1943), have doubled. Loans...
...spikes can rip across the wet soil and oars can slash the choppy waves. At last muscles can hurt after an afternoon of rugby and lungs can ache after hours of lacrosse. The discus and the javelin slice through somehow cleaner air and the ping of the tennis court seems a truer sound as the air turns warmer...
...Cold. In McGinnis' 21 months at the switch, passengers had been riding second-class. McGinnis blamed late schedules on last year's floods, but the timetable had fallen apart long before. When commuters protested McGinnis' $12 million slash in maintenance funds since 1953, McGinnis snapped: "I've given these politicians everything they asked for." In summer, when air conditioning broke down, McGinnis explained that the weather was "too hot." In winter, when diesel locomotives stalled because crews failed to drain condensation coils, he claimed that his engines were "freezing...
Shameful Brawls. Harry Truman tried hard to make the fight and he tried the only way he knew how. He was bedeviled by billions of new commitments-e.g., veterans' benefits, interest on the tremendous new debt-that he could do nothing about. So he slashed billions from the armed services on the valid theory that they had learned to live extravagantly in the lush days of World War II. A slash, his budget people told him, would teach the services to live efficiently; once they had learned austerity again, perhaps they could have some more money...