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Standing on a table to welcome a contingent of Canadian troops, Boatner advised them not to kill unless absolutely necessary: "If you get into a fight [with a prisoner], slash him, use the butt of your rifle, give him the knee in the groin...
...spending, ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman had one persistent warning for the governments of Europe: after the Marshall Plan expires in 1952, the U.S. Congress will be reluctant to vote any more funds for economic aid. Last week a reluctant House of Representatives made good Hoffman's prediction, voted to slash some $1.7 billion-most of it in economic aid and Point Four funds-out of the Administration's $7.9 billion Mutual Security bill...
From 102 to 18. Taking over in the depth of the depression, the new governor was forced to slash state expenditures 32%, reduced the number of state departments from 102 to 18, wiped out 26 boards of trustees and substituted one board of regents to run the state's higher-education system. He was just getting into full stride in the middle of his first term when Georgia's Senator William J. Harris died. Governor Russell ran for the unexpired term, beat Veteran Congressman Charles R. Crisp, dean of Georgia's house delegation...
...time may come--a period of full war or of comparative peace--when the government can afford to ignore production in the interests of suppressing inflation rigidly. But until then, the Hercules in the White House must slash away with whatever he has. A little good faith on the part of everyone concerned would sharpen his blade considerably...
...Slash government expenditure by 110 billion francs...