Word: slices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government's expenditure for 1954 was over $35 billion, the highest it had been since the war year of 1954. This figure excludes military expenditures, which chalked up another $40 billion. These military costs remained abnormally high, despite a complete revamping of our defense policy in order to slice the Army's expenditure...
...seven lines competing for a slice of the world's best air route, Northeast had one of the weakest claims. A CAB examiner had recommended Delta; New York City and Baltimore had officially endorsed Pan Am. Northeast's very weakness, however, turned out to be its strength. It was the only domestic trunk-line still on Government subsidy, receiving $1.8 million from Washington every year, and CAB felt that it had a mandate to get all U.S. airlines off subsidy and flying on their...
Nine nations-Cambodia, Nationalist China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam-got $767 million in U.S. economic and technical assistance in fiscal 1956, the International Corporation Administration reported last week. South Korea, which maintains 20 army divisions, got the biggest slice: $327 million...
...report raised the question of whether it would not be wise to limit any one company, however honestly and efficiently managed. For example, a limit of 1% of the gross national product would slice G.M. to one-third its size...
Reread Willa. Author Siebel's grim little slice of life has the troubling oppressiveness of a Grant Wood painting. Her portrait has a frame of iron, and within it poor Ella and all the rest do not have a chance because Julia Siebel never meant them to have one. Hatred for the harsh side of farm life is here, and hatred for the narrowness of small-town life, but it comes out as a pathological hatred instead of a meaningful one and Ella Beecher seems not so much tragic as vegetable. The publishers compare this embittered tale with...