Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stock market continued upwards during the week, with a heavy volume of trading, although there were no signs from the industrial world of marked improvement for the immediate future. The oil situation looked better-with normalcy quite a way in the distance. The cotton shortage will probably curtail buying rather than enrich planter or spinner through high prices. The retail trade is too good to last, and is unusually dependent on the maintenance of very high industrial wages. The foreign situation grew more confused, accompanied by a sharp drop in sterling exchange. Only the building boom can be considered, from...
...months, that bankers restrict speculative building loans till fall, that wide publicity be given to the rising costs of construction and that all building by the government be halted over summer. The Federal Reserve Board in Washington has announced itself in agreement with the Construction Board's advice to curtail loans, while Chambers of Commerce all over the country have promised cooperation and support...
...reduction of ten per-cent in order. The workers, however, reply as usual with a demand for shorter hours at the increased pay. The exorbitant cost of production is eventually passed on to the purchase, and the price of books soars steadily upward. When publishers are forced to curtail the printing of textbooks because they can not sell enough to make one edition profitable, college students may well take alarm at modern labor conditions...
...that last year a gain of about $13,000 was made over the receipts of 1915-1916. However, expenses last year showed an increase of $18,000 over 1915-1916, but this amount would have been much larger if strenuous efforts had not been made in every department to curtail expenses...