Word: slash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio last week reported that housewives are apt to turn on their radios by day and save the TV set for the evenings, when the family gets together. In an advertising rate change that bore out this report, CBS radio announced a slash of some 20 to 30% on evening charges for its regular customers. Daytime rates would be boosted about 5%. The daytime boost brings CBS's rates back to where they were in 1951, when radio began to have doubts that it could outdraw TV in the morning and afternoon...
...reflex: the minute prices weaken, the growers cut production. This year, a record world sugar output of 44.4 million tons is expected to top demand by 2,500,000 tons. Faced with the prospect of falling prices, such big sugar producers as Cuba and Puerto Rico are planning a slash of 20% to 30% in their 1953 output...
Standing on a table to welcome a contingent of Canadian troops, Boatner advised them not to kill unless absolutely necessary: "If you get into a fight [with a prisoner], slash him, use the butt of your rifle, give him the knee in the groin...
...spending, ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman had one persistent warning for the governments of Europe: after the Marshall Plan expires in 1952, the U.S. Congress will be reluctant to vote any more funds for economic aid. Last week a reluctant House of Representatives made good Hoffman's prediction, voted to slash some $1.7 billion-most of it in economic aid and Point Four funds-out of the Administration's $7.9 billion Mutual Security bill...
From 102 to 18. Taking over in the depth of the depression, the new governor was forced to slash state expenditures 32%, reduced the number of state departments from 102 to 18, wiped out 26 boards of trustees and substituted one board of regents to run the state's higher-education system. He was just getting into full stride in the middle of his first term when Georgia's Senator William J. Harris died. Governor Russell ran for the unexpired term, beat Veteran Congressman Charles R. Crisp, dean of Georgia's house delegation...