Word: slash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FARM-TRACTOR sales have slumped so badly that International Harvester will slash production at its Rock Island, 111. plant in half this week, its biggest cutback since...
...FACING a slash in its budget, the Air Force is already pulling in its belt on noncombat planes. It canceled orders for 420 T36 trainers placed with Beech and Canadair, recalled 37 C-54 transports that it had leased to airlines. The Navy also canceled Temco Aircraft's "secondary source" contract for some 100 F3H-1 Demon jet fighters. McDonnell Aircraft, the primary supplier, was unaffected. Current backlog of all aircraft orders: $18 billion, enough to keep the industry busy for more than two years...
...there. By indirection, Symington accused Charlie Wilson of failure to consult Vandenberg, the Air Force chief of staff, on the Air Force budget cuts. It was his understanding, said Symington, that at the time of the crucial NSC meeting, General Vandenberg had not yet been told that the planned slash in the defense budget would come almost entirely out of Air Force funds...
Hits Budget Slash...
...attacked the President on two main counts. He accused him of letting GOP opposition slash the defense budget too deeply and of failing to "crack down" on Joe McCarthy...