Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traders argued that their island's value as the East's greatest trading center immunized it against aggression. Hanging out the "business as usual sign, they continued to do a flourishing trade with Red China. In recent months the U.S. embargo on China-bound exports threatened to curtail their prosperity...
...Miles-Nolan vivisection bill. They have now a marshaled stack of theological arguments, most of them stating that the merciful shall obtain mercy, and that what has been formed by God should not be deformed by man. In some places the anti-vivisectionists have become powerful enough to curtail medical research...
...then it was legal under the Robinson-Patman Act. "The heart of our national economic policy long has been faith in the value of competition," wrote Justice Harold Burton for the majority. "Congress did not seek by the Robinson-Patman Act either to abolish competition or so radically to curtail it that a seller would have no substantial right of self-defense against a price raid by a competitor . . . The seller may well find it essential, as a matter of business survival, to meet the price rather than lose the customer." The Supreme Court gave orders for FTC to determine...
...December 21, Walter Brown, president of the Garden-Arena Corporation, announced that the expense of refrigerating the two ovals might make it necessary to curtail or even eliminate all college practice and most college games in the '51-'52 season, and to throw out all high school hockey. Expansion of a union among Garden and Arena employees has led to an expense of nearly $1,000 per day to keep ice in both buildings on a 24-hur schedule...
...Pudding's show, "Buddha Knows Best" will open December 26 at Hunter College Auditorium instead. Besides changing its location, the Pudding also will have to curtail its run to four instead of six days...