Word: curtailer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right conferred by the State. In the present Socialist temper of Germany a general belief that the original subscribers to the bank stock were "profiteering" on their 8% plus dividends might easily lead to a situation in which the Government would be forced by public opinion to curtail the Reichsbank's profitable right of issue. Under the new plan imputations of profiteering can hardly arise, yet the stockholders will receive?if they agree to take it?the liberal guaranteed return of 12%. "Fair" though this may seem, the net result was to send Reichsbank shares down from 319 marks...
Although in Tulsa some 500 independent producers ran howling to a mass meeting and resolved to petition both Congress and the Petroleum Institute for help against bad Standard, the eventual result of Standard's move will probably be to curtail production until some of the gasoline surplus has been absorbed...
...engineers that the lanes of parked cars along the curb were a serious obstruction to all traffic movement. But there is no more delicate question in the whole traffic problem than parking. Merchants look on the parked car as a source of much business. Motorists resent any attempt to curtail parking as an abrogation of personal privilege...