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Voice officials themselves were almost voiceless with dismay at the committee's action, but after a time they announced bravely that, despite the slash, they would go ahead with Operation Vagabond, a new plan to install powerful radio stations on fast-going freighters. The ships, by being able to move about, would beam a U.S. "campaign of truth" into Communist countries despite Soviet jamming tactics...
...five years made his 13-plane outfit the busiest feeder airline in the U.S. In 1950, Long reported last week, Pioneer topped all competitors in passenger miles flown (37 million), was outranked only by Washington, D.C.'s All American in revenue passengers flown. Even after a $400,000 slash in Government mail pay, Long managed to boost Pioneer's profits by 7%, turn in a tidy...
...their remote plantations the planters live behind barbed wire, go about armed and with bodyguards. Communists have murdered ten of the 42 European planters in the state of Pahang. Every month Communists slip into the rubber estates, slash the rubber trees. In one month last year they slashed more than 67,000 trees, and a slashed rubber tree is out of production for about seven years...
...propose," said Bronk, "to make this a university in which the sharp distinctions between undergraduates and graduates will be eliminated ... in which students will be given the opportunity to progress as rapidly as they are able." It was a plan that would overhaul traditional requirements from top to bottom, slash away department lines...
...first big layoffs because of shortages and prospective war production began to threaten U.S. industry. Nash-Kelvinator Corp. announced that by Jan. 15 it would cut back 18% of its work force, or 4,500 employees, and slash auto production by 25%. Because of other cutbacks in the auto industry, Michigan expected that the state's unemployment total, which had jumped by 13,000 to 65,000 in the latest week, would hit 150,000 by summer...