Word: curtailer
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...leaving college prematurely, it is alarming to see how this number is growing every year. It has almost come to the point where no self-respecting girl dare appear at commencement and admit that there has not been a man or a debut in her life sufficiently pressing to curtail her college career. It is true the Committee on Admission has attempted to prevent this situation by asking all candidates how long they intend to remain if they get in, but most candidates have long since learned the correct answer to this question and to employ it regardless of sincerity...
...thereby endangering international friendly relations. After a brief, preliminary survey of the voluminous measure, experts guessed that, whereas the tariff passed by Congress is expected to cut $80,000,000 from Canadian sales in the U. S. next year, Mr. Dunning's tariff may be expected to curtail U. S. sales in Canada by some...
...business recession changed his belief that: "It is unnatural to curtail production of anything. . . . Any plan to manipulate conditions and retard production is inadvisable if not ruinous. . . . Machines eliminate drudgery. . . . Strange as it may seem, the more machines in operation, the more men at work. There are more men working today by 50% than at any time in the history of the world, and the standard of the worker has been raised to a much higher level...
...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...