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...Johnson, prosperous Negro undertaker in Belzoni, was treated to the arrival of a C.C.-imported rival funeral home, which tried to slash his business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Armageddon to Go | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...School of Education faces an annual budget slash of $63,000 beginning next year when a $300,000 bequest expires in June, Dean Francis Keppel '38 announced yesterday...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Budget Slash Faces School Of Education | 10/6/1955 | See Source »

PLASTIC PRICES will come down as the result of an 18% price slash on Union Carbide & Carbon Corp.'s vinyl resins (used for raincoats, upholstery, garden hose, etc.). With Italian vinyls selling in the U.S. for 32? a lb., Union Carbide was forced to cut its price from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jul. 11, 1955 | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...highly unladylike. Still in her late twenties, and the product of a college writing class (State University of Iowa), Georgia's Flannery O'Connor has already learned to strip the acres of clay-country individuality with the merciless efficiency of a cotton-picking machine. She can also slash through the window boxes and buckthorn hedges and expose the peckernecks who have moved to town and put on pretensions. Her instruments are a brutal irony, a slam-bang humor and a style of writing as balefully direct as a death sentence. The South that simpers, storms and snivels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Such Nice People | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...Bevan, by contrast, was all slash and stab. "The Tawies have got the difficult task ... of trying to persuade the poor to vote the rich back into power . . . Eden has been the best-looking man in British politics for 40 years . . . He's been sitting on his charger waiting for Sir Winston to ride and . . . now he's a bit saddle-sore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: On the Hustings | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

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