Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even this drastic expedient, however, will not save the system if further concessions are made to labor, and these seem inevitable. Moreover the University is committed to continue T. S. E. P. for at least another year. For this reason the University is negotiating for raises to take effect in September, thereby relieving this year's budget of unexpected burden and allowing time to consider and fix a new meal rate...
Calling for drastic reform of the present system, the second group of recommendations includes the election of department heads by all members of the department, and asks that elected departmental committees be set up for the purpose of "investigating and recommending men for appointment, promotion, or termination of appointment...
Indefatigable Chairman McKinsey, who had never before held a corporate job, was nothing if not drastic. He lopped off the losing wholesale business entirely, along with 1,600 employes. He reorganized the management of Chicago's Merchandise Mart, each of whose first 19 floors contains six acres of floor space, much of it vacant. He consolidated the manufacturing division's 24 mills, marked out a sweeping program for it. About all he did not alter appreciably was Marshall Field's retail division, which had lost money only once in 50 years...
...alien and a Communist, wired President Roosevelt: "Nazi agents and sympathizers working on planes of the North American Aviation Company ... at Los Angeles, and on planes of the Consolidated Aircraft Company at San Diego, are engaged in wholesale sabotage. . . . Abundant evidence and official records now exist to prove these drastic charges...
...When Congress sets the goals of farm prices and farm incomes at figures far above current economic normals, as it has done, it not only creates insoluble problems. It also forces the adoption of drastic measures certain to fall short of the goal, which in turn create fresh, complicated problems of solution. No one has yet seriously proposed that measures to regulate acreage, farming procedures, production, and marketing be reinforced by regulation of the entrance to and exit from farming, but these are logical further steps in the tightening web of regimentation...