Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...graduated. Dates with officers must wait until they are officers themselves. But no WAAC has yet been disciplined for conduct unbecoming an officer candidate. No recalcitrant WAAC will be sent to the guardhouse. Svelte, smart, serene Oveta Hobby, the director, suggests: "Dock'em." Colonel Faith's idea: "Curtail their privileges...
...must curtail hereditary privilege and extend the doctrine of equality of opportunity." These words spoken by President Conant before an audience of 300 Summer School and College students climaxed a speech during which he traced the origin of American liberty to the pioneer community, "the antithesis of a stable, sophisticated, urban civilization...
...only people really scared by sugar rationing are sugar producers. They fear that rationing may permanently dull the U.S. sweet tooth, seriously curtail the whole sugar industry. Sniffing this Cuba's powerful National Sugar Producers Association this week rushed over to the U.S Ambassador in Havana, asked him to stop the "U.S. campaign against sugar"—pronto...
...retailers are choked with goods; New York City department-store inventories for April were 77% above last year, while sales showed only a 4% increase. To correct the maldistribution, WPB announced it would soon curtail both inventories and forward buying. Retailers, already jarred by price ceilings, were in a frenzy over a trial balloon "first draft" of the order. A department store that had hoarded too much in one department might be unable to restock in another unless it disgorged its oversupply. Overall cough-up, if that order should go through: 20-35% of current retail stocks...
...Direct civilian traffic movements, and if necessary curtail these by embargoes or priorities...