Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...automakers' agreement to curtail 1942 production (TIME, April 28) was last week worked out in detail. The over-all reduction was set at 20.15%, from 5,289,972 new. cars this model year to 4,224,152 next. General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, which produce 90% of the nation's autos, agreed to cut their production 21.5% so that their medium-sized competitors would have to cut only 15%, their smallest competitors not at all; thus no company would be forced by quota below the break-even point. It was a good plan, with one failing...
MacLeish then states that unfortunately the University budget cannot support the expense of carrying out these programs, that it must curtail such expenditures since future donations will necessarily be reduced because of rising taxes...
...attempt to counteract the antistrike agitation led by powerful employer groups which they believe is becoming more insistent, the Harvard Committee for Democratic Action recently issued a statement opposing all proposals, which are in any way designed to curtail the democratic right of American labor to strike...
...cent economics will have to come mainly in administrative expenses: heat, light, telephones, secretarial service, and other non-teaching activities; and in part from not filling vacancies caused by death or the draft. "Unessential" services will have to be shorn off. Senior Faculty members will have to curtail their writing and research in order to take over teaching duties of the younger men called upon for government service. It is a question whether the ten per cent cut will suffice: the estimate is based on the present draft legislation and the present state of world affairs. An unexpectedly greater drop...
...foreign policy, which has failed to keep foreign (i.e., Axis) markets open during the war, making cotton "essentially a war orphan." That, he said, gave cotton growers a right to compensation. The Government should not only underwrite U. S. cotton production, but also stop trying to curtail it. "It may be argued that such a program will accumulate stocks of cotton in the hands of the Government. . . . What...