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Congress was even angrier when it picked up its pruning shears. With one big snip, the House Appropriations Committee last week cut more than $365 million out of requests for $843 million made by the Administration to run some of its agencies...
...House was about three weeks behind the usual schedule in its appropriation bills. Members talked grandly about pruning appropriations, but they did their pruning with embroidery scissors. Just before it sped away on its recess, the House managed to snip-snip .09% off $2.9 billion funds for Treasury and Post Office. No work at all had been done on the mammoth armed services bill; after all the brave talk about higher income and corporate taxes, there was no chance of a tax bill before late summer or fall. A good deal of the legislative structure of the industrial mobilization program...
...assistant washed the clouded eye with a mercury solution and applied a few drops of anesthetic. Then, while another assistant held a flashlight, the surgeon slipped his knife into the patient's eyeball at the exact junction of the transparent cornea and the white sclera. With a snip of his scissors, he cut out a tiny section of the iris. Then, with a deft motion, he flipped out the cataract-clouded lens. One of the assistants slapped a wad soaked with boric acid on the eye, tied a bandage in place, and the operation was over. Average time...
...know John by sight know him by sound. Many a time during the six months he has lived and worked there, strollers have been startled to hear his rich tenor voice ring out from behind a hedge, have slowed their pace to hear an operatic aria rising above the snip-snip of his clippers. But few of the townspeople of Irvington (pop. 3,272) know that only eight years ago "John" was the first tenor of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, and a "Merited Artist" of Soviet Russia...
...Richard Clothing Manufacturing Co., noticed that customers always like to test cloth by feeling it. To make this easy to do-and increase sales-he put bolts of cloth in his window, shoved their ends through slits below the window, and provided scissors with which passers-by could snip off samples...