Word: slash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every Pearl White thriller. Except for a slight accent, he is as English as the Ascot-almost. The prince arrived in London after World War II with little to his name but his name. He made some quick killings in real estate, and has settled down to quiet dabbling. Slash's cash has enabled the Radziwills to furnish their elegant Georgian house with works of art, but Radziwill is known to the trade as a "Rothschild collector,'' meaning that he buys objets d'art the way some people...
...could have known her, she would have been all right. In death, it has caused women who before resented her frolicsome sexuality to join in the unspoken plea she leaves behind-the simple, noble wish to be taken seriously and soulfully. It had also caused a desperate Turk to slash his wrists after seeing How To Marry a Millionaire, caused lonely men to offer her marriage proposals a dozen times a week for the past ten years, caused doleful girls to attempt the impossible in pathetic imitations of her. Just as her life kept hopeless plans alive, her death...
...earned on sales of only $2.9 billion in the first half of 1959. American Motors' sales in its present fiscal year are about the same as two years ago, but profits are down 30%. Chrysler is an exception. By virtue of severe cost-cutting measures that will slash $60 million off the payroll this year, it has turned last year's first-half $16 million deficit into a $12 million profit, even though sales and earnings are well below 1959 and 1960. As usual, smoothly managed General Motors is doing fine. For the past six years...
...will probably reach an agreement. They have been helped by a decision of the Common Market nations, which originally planned to admit coffee from France's former African colonies virtually free of tariff while slapping stiff duties on Latin American coffee. Now the Common Marketeers have agreed to slash their general coffee tariff by 40%, giving Latin American nations a chance to compete too, so that these hard-pressed nations will not require so much foreign aid. Explains Françoise Gavoty, France's delegate to the coffee conference: "We would rather pay higher prices for commodities than...
Down to Zero. The first is an immediate slash in present price supports, which tend to perpetuate overproduction by making it profitable to grow crops that are already in oversupply. C.E.D. proposes to cut the supports to the estimated levels that would prevail in a free market after supply and demand had come into equilibrium. The U.S. Government would maintain these "adjustment" supports for five years, then get out of the price-support business completely and permanently. For wheat and a few other oversupply crops, the cut in price would be so great that growers would suffer too drastic...