Word: slash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Small explained that greater demand this year for co-operative houses made it necessary to open a third off-campus house on a co-operative basis. Under the Annex co-operative program, girls prepare their own meals in the respective houses and so slash the regular board cost in the dorms...
...trunk -funds for ECA. Most Senators agreed with ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman that the foreign aid was not charity but self-protection; the difficulty was that Europe, being in no one's constituency, had to be debated on its own merits alone. Missouri's James Kem wanted to slash off $1 billion. Ohio's Taft offered an amendment to knock off $500 million, about 16½% of the total. He would favor cutting "every reducible appropriation," foreign & domestic, Taft declared, by just about that percent.*"If we hope to save $3 billion this year towards balancing the budget...
...aisle, Texas' Tom Connally gibed: "[Taft] sits in his office with one eye on the map of Ohio and the other on his pocket." Taft's amendment lost on a tie vote. But an amendment by New Hampshire's Styles Bridges for a $250 million slash, just like the one already passed by the House, was pushed through. Final total: $3.1 billion, of which about 90% goes to Europe under ECA, most of the rest to South Korea and other non-Communist areas in Asia...
Fading Possibility. So it went. The possibility of holding down next year's estimated $7 billion deficit to even that whopping figure faded further when the House Ways & Means Committee continued to slash excise taxes. Newest items marked for tax relief were telephone bills, Pullman-berth tickets and cabaret chits. Added to cuts made the week before, the new slashes would reduce the Treasury's intake by about $1 billion...
...business staff will bid for cheaper printing rates. Measures which the staff is considering to slash costs, Miss O'Brien said, include photolithographing the last issue and cutting down on engraving...