Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winter curtail a year without fruitions...
Last week they dropped again -to a lean six pages -with a starveling four in prospect. Thinnest British paper was the Communist Daily Worker, reduced to a single sheet. Not censorship but dwindling cash and paper stocks forced the Daily Worker to curtail. Hard-hitting Prime Minister Winston Churchill took no chance of alienating Comrade Stalin by cracking down on the Daily Worker. By way of tactful acknowledgment, Moscow papers printed 2,000 words from Churchill's speech on the retreat of the B. E. F. from Flanders...
...inventory pressure prices begin to follow the general downtrend. Evidence of increasing coal inventories in mining centres: freight loadings of coal fell, in spite of increased production, in spite of the freezing of the Ohio around Pittsburgh which prevents shipment by river. Further declines in steel & other production will curtail coal demand...