Word: trimming
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Reducing Diet. To stay afloat, newspapers have tried everything from diversification (the Charlotte Observer turned a tidy profit last year by leasing its truck fleet) to dieting (the Los Angeles Times has shrunk 5 in. in width, estimates that each ½-in. trim saves $500,000 a year in paper costs). Last year the Milwaukee Journal, minding its pennies, canceled its annual employees' picnic (savings: $12,000), rerouted its newsprint cars (savings: $1,500), and with other items amounting to as little as $250 a year managed to save an overall...
After working on this politically fused problem for five years, the Eisenhower Administration last week sent Congress a well-turned bill to trim the abuses, keep pension totals from orbiting clear into outer space...
Returning to Washington, the delegation carried Ike's word to a meeting of the full committee. By acclamation, tall, trim (6 ft. 2 in., 185 Ibs.) Thruston Morton, 51, was elected, summoned to make his maiden speech. Said the new boss from the Bluegrass: "In 1960 we are going to have proven champions carrying our banner. We are going to have proven stake winners. There'll be no selling platers in our barn...
Twenty men are out for the Varsity team and 15 for the Yardling squad. The coaches will trim these numbers to ten each by Saturday, April 18. Frank Dodge, Bob Grundeman, Jim Noble, and Fisk Warren are the strongest Varsity players, while Bob David, Allan Lipsky, Alan Locker, Dick Riley, and Bill Rose provide excellent support...