Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Business School, R. M. Russell '14, Mayor of Cambridge yesterday declared in a lively hearing of his proposed bill which will give control of the School Board Budget to the City Council, that "Cambridge was in revolt about the matter," and that it was necessary to curtail to prevent the city from defaulting on its loans...
...There is more advantage in seeing what can be done about it. And two things can be done. For one, budgets can be reduced in other ways than by attacking the schools. It is better, for example, to reduce the salaries of a few bloated. Tammany commissioners than to curtail the functioning of any New York public school. For two, schools could receive loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation...
When Anglo-Persian, due to world overproduction of oil, started to curtail its Persian flow (and therefore the Shah's royalties) Chief Marshal of the Court and Minister of State Teymourtache simply could not understand. "O King of Kings," he reputedly said to the Shah, "the policy of the English is clearly wrong. If more oil is produced, the price of this fluid all over the world will become cheaper, thus conferring universal benefit, and the more oil that flows the greater will be Persia's royalties. Since the deluded English wish to produce less oil, not more...
...wide, 10 mi. long, 3,000 ft. deep at the centre. Now owner of the vein is Roan Antelope Copper Mines, Ltd. Six years ago Roan had not been formed. Two years ago it was not producing commercially. When last spring the coppermen of the world decided to curtail production to 20% of capacity, Roan Antelope meekly agreed to a quota of 23,000 tons. Last week when the coppermen were meeting in Manhattan to renew their pact, Roan Antelope's representatives arrived bristling with demands and challenges. African copper has long been considered a potential threat...
...these small college teams, respectively Buffalo, Bates, and Niagara. Harvard won 66-0, Yale played Bates a scoreless tie, and Cornell managed to beat Niagara 7-0. The Bates game with Yale and the valiant fight that the Dave Morey coached team made at New Haven did much to curtail the criticism this year. Sports writers were agreed that on the actual play Bates was stronger...