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...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...
Miss Small explained that greater demand this year for co-operative houses made it necessary to open a third off-campus house on a co-operative basis. Under the Annex co-operative program, girls prepare their own meals in the respective houses and so slash the regular board cost in the dorms...
...aisle, Texas' Tom Connally gibed: "[Taft] sits in his office with one eye on the map of Ohio and the other on his pocket." Taft's amendment lost on a tie vote. But an amendment by New Hampshire's Styles Bridges for a $250 million slash, just like the one already passed by the House, was pushed through. Final total: $3.1 billion, of which about 90% goes to Europe under ECA, most of the rest to South Korea and other non-Communist areas in Asia...