Word: curtailer
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...groups, bandit raids, ominous grumbles by the newly-enfranchised peons against the failure of President Lázaro Cárdenas' agrarian program and revolts by disenfranchised landlords. Crux of the trouble is Cárdenas' lack of money. With a failing credit he has had to curtail public works projects, throw thousands out of work. He has divided huge estates into small peasant holdings, but has been unable to advance the peons credit for stock farm equipment, seeds...
...degrees of deadness, which had been tried out last season. The National League, which thought the American League was bound to follow its choice, forthwith voted to adopt the No. 4 ball, one degree deader than the ball used last year, on the theory that a deader ball would curtail the American League's superior batting. But the American League, thinking of the large gate receipts produced by its slugfests with the lively ball, used by both leagues since 1934, voted to retain the "rabbit" ball. In the 1938 World Series the competing teams will use the ball...
...majority in Alleghany Corp. for a mere $6,000,000, had less shrewdly spent $15,000 for 60 campaign books which he had then "scattered all over Texas and Oklahoma among my friends and relatives." Said unhappy Broker Young, whose presence in Washington had forced his wife to curtail plans for a huge dinner dance in their Newport, R. I. country house: "I would have taken soap wrappers if they had been offered...
...single-handed attempt by Cuba to curtail her production in 1926 fizzled as other sugar countries simply increased theirs. The Cuban-sponsored Chadbourne restriction plan, which Manhattan Lawyer Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne sold to world producers in Brussels in 1931 behind a smokescreen of U. S. press-agentry, failed from the beginning because quotas agreed upon were too high in face of declining world demand. Typical was the quota asked by Java during the Chadbourne negotiations: 3,300,000 tons per year. Admonished that their country had never produced that much sugar, the Javanese replied: "No, but we will some...
Current legislation has attempted to curtail our wartime economic relations with fighting powers. In the opinion of many authorities this will keep us out of war. They assume that business likes a war. Professor Baxter pointed, however, to the last war before which, he claims business, fearful of increased government legislation, was decidedly in favor of peace...