Word: slashe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cincinnatus tagged him for the city council. Once in office, he turned practical reformer with a vengeance. Langlie and his reform colleagues, though they were the minority, forced centralized city purchasing, establishment of a police training school, a shutdown of gambling halls and brothels, and a $2,000,000 slash in a fat budget. In 1936 the Cincinnatus decided to run one of their councilmen for mayor, picked Arthur Langlie. He lost to Dave Beck's friend, John Dore, by 5,000 votes, filed again two years later, won by 30,000. He was re-elected in 1940 without...
...dependable friend, able New York Times Correspondent Anthony Leviero, was inside information that Admiral Radford proposes to cut the U.S. armed forces from 2,800,000 to 2,000,000 in the next four years. The Army and Navy, said the report (correctly), would absorb most of the manpower slash. All three service chiefs, the story went on, are in revolt against Radford (incorrect: the Air Force's General Nathan F. Twining is with him, the Army's General Maxwell Taylor and the Navy's Admiral Arleigh Burke against). So torrid is the battle, wrote Leviero, that...
...Administration tried desperately to twist loose. From Walter Reed Hospital came word that President Eisenhower was willing to accept a compromise $500 million increase for the Air Force. As for foreign aid, Republican leaders could only hope that the Senate would heed its own Foreign Relations Committee and slash Administration requests by no more than $400 million this week...
...Faced with far more eligible candidates than the nation's lycées could possibly handle, French educational authorities decided to slash the number by giving the toughest entrance examinations in history. They succeeded only too well. This month 200,000 eleven-year-olds were forced to answer questions on André Gide, to analyze passages from Gabriel Hanotaux, and to solve problems such as: "A group of passengers contributed 850 francs each to rent a bus. Six withdrew, so the price was raised by 210 francs each. How many people finally formed the group?"* The result...
Fashion Tabulator. Remington Rand has developed an electronic ordering and tabulating system for Jonathan Logan, Inc., women's apparel manufacturer, says it will slash as much as two weeks from the order-production-delivery cycle. In the showroom, buyers' orders are recorded on punch cards, transcribed to manufacturing tickets, speeded to cutting rooms. The electronic system spots buying trends, permits producers to concentrate on their best-sellers and to drop the slow-moving also-rans...