Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this agreement was not so much a promise of an orgy of unusual spending as a pledge not to curtail ordinary expenditure. In order to keep production up, each line of business must be sure other lines are running at full schedule. In this way did the conference give each leader assurance that he would be left holding no bag. Rumors of curtailment were denied. Merchant Jesse Isidor Straus of R. H. Macy & Co. said it was not true he had laid off 1,200 employes but that he had discharged 28, taken on 200. Other executives spoke along...
...from his State's fields at the rate of about 769,000 barrels per day, Gov. Young was prepared to tell his conferees something of his State's efforts to limit crude oil and gas production. California has a State Oil Umpire (F. C. Van Diesne) to curtail production. Potential production is estimated by a general engineering committee of the oil operators and from these estimates Umpire Van Diesne prepares his orders for allowable production. His most recent order is calculated to clip some 200,000 barrels per day from California's oil flow, bring production down...
...Woodin of American Car and Foundry Co. - a Wet Republican who supported Alfred Emanuel Smith for President - called for united protest, thus: "Certainly the sport of boating cannot be safe if the lives and property of boat owners are subject to such perils. . . . Our Government should be asked to curtail the activities of Coast Guard boats. . . . Boat manufacturers with large invested capital are concerned about the future of the pleasure boat industry unless public confidence can be restored." To still the troubled waters of yachting, Commandant Billard, a determined officer with a "sense of duty," last week addressed a public...
...Midnight. A signal, a shout. Then the sound of machinery drilling in the black earth, while lights gleamed on 92 steel derricks and cut the black sky. That was midnight, last week, when an agreement to curtail drilling in the rich Maud and Mission territory near Seminole, Okla., came...
...husband, forms a fixation for a businessman whom she had disregarded until he departed from France for the Argentine. During his absence, she worships him and lives at war with her neighbours; when he returns from South America, she is compelled, by comparing her mental image with reality, to curtail her adoration, and to live, more than ever, at war with life...