Word: slash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Veterans Administration personnel came after Congress approved an Appropriations Bill which cut ten percent from the money granted to each department. The Boston office was requested to slash half of its staff working on veteran applications...
...drop in steel production, why had NPA estimated that steelmen will produce 400,000 tons more steel in the first quarter of 1952 than in this year's last quarter? Furthermore, how did Wilson expect to get more steel next year when he had permitted DPA to slash the steel industry's allotment of metal for expansion only a fortnight ago? What, wondered steelmen, had got into Charlie Wilson...
...Suicide Route." Illinois' Republican Everett Dirksen, who proposed a $250 million slash in economic aid for Western Europe, voiced one side of the argument: "We lift our voices in magnificent cliches about the danger from outside. Are we alert to the fact that America can die from suicide within? The suicide route is the fiscal route." Majority Leader McFarland voiced the other side: "Is it cheaper to arm European boys, or put all of our young manhood in uniform? The world is in a dangerous situation and we must see to it that our allies are strong economically...
...were acting more from general convictions of the need for economy than from knowledge of specific items which could be sliced. But there was also no more doubt that the Administration's figure was based as much on horseback estimates as solid figures. Dirksen's slash just squeaked through...
Pointing out that the number of State Department employees had increased about 350% since 1942, Senator Paul Douglas called for a payroll slash. Said he: "When they deal with a problem, they feel the way to meet it is to hire a large number of people ... If three men are needed to do a certain job, they hire twelve to 15. They spend a large portion of their time communicating with each other . . . until finally the chief work of the State Department consists in its members talking to one another...