Word: slashe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propose," said Bronk, "to make this a university in which the sharp distinctions between undergraduates and graduates will be eliminated ... in which students will be given the opportunity to progress as rapidly as they are able." It was a plan that would overhaul traditional requirements from top to bottom, slash away department lines...
...first big layoffs because of shortages and prospective war production began to threaten U.S. industry. Nash-Kelvinator Corp. announced that by Jan. 15 it would cut back 18% of its work force, or 4,500 employees, and slash auto production by 25%. Because of other cutbacks in the auto industry, Michigan expected that the state's unemployment total, which had jumped by 13,000 to 65,000 in the latest week, would hit 150,000 by summer...
...change was not made merely to please the girls. Faced with the draft, the college foresaw a drastic slash in enrollment, and President Richard D. Weigle feared that it might have to drop 25% of its faculty. Even now, St. John's has only 165 students, two-thirds of capacity...
...time has been nibbling at the civilian use of various scarce materials, last week took the biggest bite yet. It ordered a 15% cut in non-defense copper for the first two months of 1951, and a 20% cut for March. Automen said the cut would mean a 10% slash in auto production in next year's first quarter because there was no practical substitute for copper in auto radiators...
...Trumpeted Republican National Chairman Guy Gabrielson: "The attempt ... to insinuate that Republican victory mea°ns a revival of isolationism is an unworthy fraud and deceit." Alexander Wiley announced that the results meant only a "closer supervision" of foreign aid funds. "There need not be fear that Congress will slash foreign aid with a meat ax," he said...