Word: slash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come up here with a knife and slash our best clothes if we didn't leave something...
...Authorize the President to slash existing tariffs to not more than 50% ad valorem at his discretion...
...decision divided the five-man board on straight party lines. Board Member Abe Murdock, former Democratic Senator, charged that the board was abdicating its responsibilities, and that the decision of the Republican majority amounted to a "usurpation of legislative power by an administrative agency.'' By this "wholesale slash," said he, "it seems probable that at least 25% and perhaps . . . 33⅓% of our past jurisdiction is now eliminated." With equal fervor his fellow Democrat Ivar H. Peterson protested that the limits had been set "arbitrarily" and"capriciously." But NLRB Chairman Guy Farmer, speaking for the three-man Republican...
...Appropriated $2,790,824,816 for foreign aid, after adopting a $200 million slash put forward by South Carolina's Burnet Maybank. The Senate's total is $100 million below the House appropriation, $264 million below the program authorization, $648 million below the President's request...
...Lack of funds has forced the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to slash emergency aid to polio patients, reported President Basil O'Connor. The $200,000 doled out last week "represents money 'borrowed' from funds committed to re search and education." To meet the short age, there will be an emergency March of Dimes next week...