Word: slashe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ends are strong points in the Crusader line. Though only 6 feet, and 135 pounds, McCann plays both ways at right end. He is probably the Purple's best man on pass defense, and can slash in when necessary. Left end Joe Mikutowicz is more of a blocker than a passcatching threat. Little--5 feet., 11 in.-- Owen Coogan spells Mikutowicz on defense. Despite his lack of size, Coogan has looked fairly good so far this year. The end coach at Holy Cross is Elmer Madar, who filled a similar position here last year...
...prices were down an average of $300, with most of the decline occurring last week. Even at that, sales were slow. Though the used-car lots were hit the hardest, new-car salesmen were also feeling the pinch. With the slump in used-car prices, dealers were forced to slash their trade-in allowances. One Hudson dealer in Detroit who had sold 30 cars two weeks ago last week sold just five...
...cigarette box, Sophocles Venizelos' new government (Greece's 18th since liberation), a Liberal-Populist-Social Democrat coalition, looked fine. It totted up to 158 seats. But ECA officials had lost patience with cabinet shuffling. At week's end ECA and State Department officials announced a slash in Greek assistance funds. "This action," said a Department spokesman, "is based upon the conclusion, after careful consideration and analysis, that the rate of progress in the Greek program has not been sufficient to allow complete and effective utilization of the amount originally contemplated...
...years ago, he figured that he could run a railroad just as well as the next man, and maybe better. Although railroad management was new to him, Financier Dumaine went right to work. That meant, first of all, cutting costs to the bone. He had learned the technique-slash wages, cut the staff and sales force, eliminate such "frills" as advertising-in such earlier business ventures as New Hampshire's Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. and the Waltham Watch Co. Amoskeag closed down in 1936 and had to liquidate, but Dumaine came out all right: a holding company controlled...
...with the tight-lipped compliance of the late James Forrestal, the slash was made...