Word: slashe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unfortunate term "foreign aid," the President said, implies "some sort of giveaway," but in fact the worldwide mutual-security program is "of transcendent importance" to the U.S.'s security. To discard or drastically slash the program, the President warned, would bring about a "basic impairment of free world power" and a "crumbling'' of the U.S.'s "strategic overseas positions." The results would be heavier defense spending, higher taxes, bigger draft calls and "ultimately, a beleaguered America, her freedoms limited by mounting defense costs, and almost alone in a world dominated by international Communism...
Mayor Tamaki argued that the proposed tariff will drastically slash Tsubame's exports to the U.S. and bring economic disaster to his city. (Canada, another Tsubame customer, may also raise its tariffs if the U.S. does.) But no one in Washington could give the delegation much encouragement that the tariff would not be raised. Said Tamaki: "I simply cannot believe that you Americans, if you knew the facts-and realized that the signing of this Tariff Commission recommendation would mean the ruin of 50,000 people who think, live and believe in the same principles you do-would allow...
MOSCOW, Jan. 6--Soviet Russia announced Monday it is withdrawing and disbanding 58,000 troops in Hungary and East Germany as part of a slash of 300,000 men in the Soviet armed forces...
...return. Its estimated $955,000 loss on the service this year will still be the lowest of any Chicago commuter line; Rock Island alone will drop $1,500,000. In Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania rings up a yearly $4,000,000 commuter deficit, which a requested 15% fare boost would slash by only...
Socialist ministers threatened to pull out of the coalition Cabinet charging the government was victimizing the workers. They were up in arms over Gaillard's austerity plan to slash food subsidies and thus send up retail prices. The Premier put the plan forward in a move to save 90 billion francs (214 million dollars) for the government...