Word: slash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along the civilian production front last week, squawks of anguish pierced the air. The defense mobilizers, anxious to speed up the laggard flow of guns, announced second-quarter production quotas which made a deeper slash into civilian goods than most businessmen had expected. The casualties...
...Belgium, after watching miners struggling to push loaded coal cars over an uneven tunnel floor, a West Virginia mining engineer named Neil Robinson offered to slash production costs from $14 to $11 a ton-if given a free hand. The skeptical Belgians agreed; Robinson has since set to work injecting U.S. zest and know-how into one of Belgium's oldest and deepest pits-the Good Hope Mine. If he succeeds, and the chances are that he will, MSA hopes to use the "Robinson Experiment" to spark similar coalface production drives throughout Western Europe...
...more-and unexpected-cuts soon. Word got out that he plans to cut auto output from 1,000,000 cars in the first quarter of 1952 to 800,000 cars in the second. Furthermore, Fleischmann would give automakers only enough copper for 640,000 cars. If the new slash goes through, said the automen, unemployment in the industry would double. Said G.M.'s "Engine Charlie" Wilson: "It would amount to a political, economic and social crime...
...weeks ago, Premier René Pleven proclaimed austerity for France, and a Slash in imports of U.S. coal, ore and raw materials, in an effort to brake the run. But devaluation rumors had French capital badly scared...
...does not mean that they could abolish controls overnight. The coal, railroad and road transport industries will not be denationalized. But they will be decentralized, state control will be made remoter, and management transferred as far as possible from Whitehall. The free national health service will certainly take a slash...