Word: slashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from expressing pleasure and gratitude at a prospective saving of $5.000.000, Postmaster Harry Stewart New found that no bids met the U. S. specifications, rejected both International Envelope and Middle West Supply. The slashings and guessing contest began again. Middle West Supply sliced its figure most, about $2,500,000. But with a $500,000 handicap, International Envelope could slash" $2,100,000 and win by its narrow margin of $100,000. Postmaster New had saved millions...
Down, down, down go earnings of U. S. automobile tire makers (TIME, Aug. 27). And down, down, down go the prices of tires. To leading companies, U. S. Rubber and the "biggest" Goodyear Tire & Rubber, last week announced a 20% slash in the cost of second grade tires, meeting a similar reduction by Firestone Tire...
...hand," is swelling notably puffed by the "Hearst of England," Lord Rothermere, who recently shifted his always opportunist support from Stanley Baldwin to David Lloyd George (TIME, Nov. 7). Since Labor is not likely to emerge weakened from the coming conflict, a Liberal resurgence would slash deep into the Conservative majority. Before such a slash is attempted, Stanley Baldwin, most negative of British Prime Ministers, must toughen the resistance of his party by displaying positive, constructive leadership...
...Amazon Valley, a black jungle along the Tapajos River, that crawls all the way from the River of Doubt to the Xingu River. Soon boa constrictors will slip down into the jungle centres; monkeys will set up a great chattering. Black Indians armed with heavy blades will slash down their one-time haunts to make way for future windshield wipers, floor mats, balloon tires. If Mr. Ford's plantation progresses in Brazil as Mr. Firestone's is progressing in Liberia, it should in ten years become a factor in the international rubber market...
Cuts. The Cabinet of Signor Mussolini cut freight rates by reductions varying between 12% and 25%. Postal rates were cut slightly and telephone rates by as much as 20% on certain classes of service. The carriers affected were all state owned, so a pen scratch sufficed to slash prices...