Word: slash
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...experimental laboratory of the Phelps Dodge Corp., was designed to slash the cost and increase the ease of installing a bathroom by stamping it out like an automobile body. Fuller really loved this contraption. He mounted it on the back of a truck and rode it out to Long Island. Remembers an old friend: "He went tearing around town, he had some child sitting on the John, and he was throwing toilet paper all over the place." All together, about a dozen bathrooms were made and installed (Fuller's close friend, Author Christopher Morley, bought two), but Phelps Dodge...
With this lackluster picture in mind, President Kennedy issued his call for an $11 billion cut in corporate and personal income taxes. The proposal ran afoul of a Congress-and of some businessmen-reluctant to slash Government income without chopping spending as well. Congressmen were unmoved by arguments that the cuts would ultimately raise federal revenue by stimulating greater business activity. All through the year, they dawdled over the cut, devoted their efforts to squeezing more than $4.5 billion out of the Kennedy fiscal 1964 budget request...
...modern, competitive industry had gained so much by the Common Market that it was now time for France's efficient, highly productive farm bloc to get some gravy too. But Germany's farmers are so highly subsidized that any agricultural agreement would mean a severe slash in German farm prices-an unpleasant political prospect for West Germany's new Chancellor Ludwig Erhard...
C.C.N.Y. fencers overcame an early three-point deficit to slash the Crimson 15-12 in New York Saturday. Hugh Winig, winning his three epee duels, led Harvard in the strongest showing against the Beavers in recent years...
Faking well and directing his fellow backs through large openings prepared by his line, Rapp took Yale to its second touchdown in nine plays. Egloff and Mercein did most of the running, with Egloff crossing the goal line on a one yard slash through tackle...