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...drop was not only in foods. Some oil companies, in their fourth successive slash in the price of fuel oil, brought the total cut to about 33%. In two months lumber had felt its biggest price spill since war's end. Prices of secondhand automobiles, both "new" and used, came tumbling down. Dealers were so overstocked with "new-used" 1949 models in the higher-priced cars that they had cut their buying offers to 10% and 15% below list prices...
Officials of the Ivy League colleges will consider how to slash dormitory operating costs and improve dining hall management at a meeting at Cornell today and tomorrow...
...good fencing terms. Last year, Peroy built a top-flight squad that lost only to Cornell and Yale--the latter game by a heavily-disputed one point. Last year also produced a team that pulled as many Three-Musketeer antics as a fencing team can. John Gay used to slash his saber as if he were swatting mosquitoes in a Cuban jungle. Red McNeil had his own little trick. He'd lunge out with a saber and then roll onto his back to escape the counterpunch. It was unconventional and it looked good, even if it was kid stuff...
...very few hundred dollars," will be for the quick, economical reproduction of letters, documents, blueprints, maps, etc., in offices. Many bugs have to be worked out before Xerography can do more. Eventually, Haloid hopes to produce cameras which print their photographs almost instantaneously, and light, cheap presses which will slash capital investments and operating costs in the newspaper and magazine publishing industry...
Expecting a natural decline in accordance with the cyclical theory, McNair said that a budget slash plus possible tax increases would avoid "irreparable long-term damage to the economy, which would be the result of additional governmental controls...