Word: curtailer
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...Colonel Daniel MacCormack, Bostonian, hard working Director of Persian Internal Revenue, announced a standing offer by Persia to curtail her opium production 10% whenever the morphin, cocaine and heroin producing countries† should agree to a similar curtailment of their drug production. Said Colonel MacCormack: "We know that 5,000 tons of opium are produced annually throughout the world, while there is legitimate need for less than...
Many an amateur athlete is so only in name. He prefers huge expense accounts to a salary. West Virginia Wesleyan was forced to curtail football because it was learned that players there were receiving financial inducement to represent her on the gridiron. And now it is proposed that Lawrence High School should reward its athletes with scholarships...
Mussolini and the Vatican are fast coming to loggerheads because the Fascist regime is planning to curtail religious education. At the same time the New York State Government has met and disposed of a problem of a rather strikingly opposite nature...
...Education because one hour from every public school week has been left open for religious education of any sort the parents of pupils may choose. This parochial instruction, furthermore, is optional. It seems to us that it is rather an anomalous sort of free thinking which attempts to curtail parents' right of choice in the matter of their offspring's religious education. Free and anti-religious are not generally considered synonymous...
British rubber magnates want the price of rubber never to fall below 42? a pound, which represents a fair profit for the average grower of plantation rubber. To maintain that price the Stevenson Plan became effective in 1919. When rubber falls below 42? growers must curtail production; when it mounts above, they may produce to capacity. The Stevenson Plan prevents loss to growers, but does not restrict their profits. And their profits may mean loss to rubber consumers, who are thus forestalled...