Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NATO nations had shed some illusions and prepared to scuttle some plans. Where they had expected to have 30 divisions in fairly good shape, they had the skeletons of only a dozen, perhaps 15. Of these, only the six divisions sent over by the U.S. stood anywhere near fighting trim. Most of the other divisions in NATO's army had only one battalion of artillery apiece where six apiece were planned. There should have been 2,500 U.S. tanks on hand, but there were only 500. So busy were SHAPE'S planners at the complicated task of meshing...
...gesture in the grand Churchillian manner. In itself, it would save little (about $80,000 to date), and the well-heeled Tory ministers could easily afford it. But psychologically, it put the Tories in a better position to trim national expenditures, and its subtle implication was that within three years the Tories would have Britain shipshape again...
While its words were no less warlike, and it was still adamant in demanding British evacuation, the Egyptian government was acting with more restraint. It had obviously given up the reckless notion that its sorry army could push the trim, entrenched and reinforced British forces out of Suez; it was talking now of a long and gradual siege to squeeze them out. Hatreds so swiftly stirred, and so swiftly tamped down, could easily stir again; no one on either side wore a hopeful, happy face. But the West was determined to go ahead-albeit slowly, and despite Egypt...
...pressurizing equipment for U.S. planes (except for Douglas, which makes its own). Garrett's company branched out into superchargers and electronic equipment, turned out $112 million of World War II equipment and had 5,000 employees at its wartime peak. At war's end, he had to trim his payroll to 600, and scratch for new ways to boost business...
...wool "blankets" for home insulation and a simple roll-on method of refinishing old walls with colored plaster. This year, after spending $41 million on new plants in the postwar years, Baker expects his sales to reach a record $90 million (almost half of U.S. Gypsum), although taxes will trim his net from 1950's $9,200,000 to about $6,600,000. Despite rearmament's curbs on building, he expects his sales to keep rising...