Word: slash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will "vigorously oppose" a drive, led by Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George, to raise exemptions from the present $600 to $800 this year and to $1,000 in 1955. House Republicans, seeking a more politically palatable way to head off the Democrats, are pressing a plan to slash excise taxes on such items as furs, jewelry, cosmetics, theater admissions, transportation and communications−most of them by 50%. Humphrey said this week that he was against so broad a reduction, but would approve more "selective" cuts in excise rates...
...Army faces a slash of 21,538 officers under the present budget. To keep the number of force-outs to a minimum, the Army considered the 90-day plan. If the Appropriations Committee allows the Defense Department to modify the budget, ROTC graduates will be carried as "extra numbers...
This June, the Army should receive 14,500 newly commissioned ROTC officers. At the same time, because of a White House budget slash, the Army will have cut its active officer strength almost...
This June, the Army should receive 14,500 newly commissioned ROTC second lieutenants. At the same time, because of a budget slash, the Army will have to cut its active officers, strength almost 12,000 by June...
...first slash of dawn cut across the sullen grey sea, U.S.-supplied Grumman fighters tore into the coastline. They laid their napalm on a hill that overlooked the beach objective, worked the area with their machine guns. Then U.S.-supplied landing craft lurched towards shore. There was no resistance. The Communists, in the style of this uncanny war, had known for days where the French were landing, when they were coming, and how; they simply melted into the hills, taking the adult population of Tuyhoa with them. The small town was empty but for one suicide squad-eight men with...