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Cuts. The Cabinet of Signor Mussolini cut freight rates by reductions varying between 12% and 25%. Postal rates were cut slightly and telephone rates by as much as 20% on certain classes of service. The carriers affected were all state owned, so a pen scratch sufficed to slash prices...
Toward evening of the third day's fighting, some 30 men sat silently thinking, and when the sun had dropped behind vast Mont Real they had reconsidered and restruck every swing and slash of the three-day battle and each knew why and just where he had lost the prize, but they could do nothing. Nothing except congratulate the winner, a freckled mite of a Scotsman, Macdonald Smith...
...prevent the Maharaja's emissaries from murdering the merchant Bawla in cold blood on the open highway while he was riding with Mumtaz Begum; but the golfers did succeed in driving off the natives (armed with revolvers, knives and swords) before they could do more to the girl than slash her face, permanently disfiguring...
Competition in the steel business is such that all producers are straining every nerve to slash production costs as never before in the history of the industry...
...financial sensation of the past week has been the completely unex- pected slash in the rediscount rate of the Bank of England, from...