Word: curtailer
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...foreign level, and this level of late has frequently been below the cost of production. Hence the farmers have suffered. As long as foreign prices remain below our cost of production, the only way farming can be made profitable is to sell no farm produce abroad. This means curtailed production for the time being. The unfortunate fact is that apparently the only way to curtail production is to make it unprofitable. Allow the farmer to make money on his produce by Government price fixing and he will naturally (unless some direct effort is made to prevent him) increase his production...
Perhaps I had better curtail the reasons for my approval, as the real purpose of this letter is to let you know that your remarks are read and approved by graduates outside the college. Yours very truly, Sewall C. Brackett...
...Coolidge called in correspondents and let them know in unusually blunt language, that he did not approve of the suggestion of Sir Josiah Stamp at the Brussels meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce (see Page 5), that the U. S. reduce its tariffs and curtail production in order to facilitate German reparations payments. He regarded such an act as making this country pay reparations and partly cancel debts owing...
...shatter her tariff wall and assist the depressed European nations to increase their exports. But, above all, creditor nations under the Experts' Plan should not press for German payments quicker than that trade policy permits. Further, he warned that creditor nations, including the U. S., might have to curtail production if the Plan is to succeed. The U. S. delegation gasped. The French grew faint. Belgians were dazed. The entire conference was dejected, dismayed. Germans once again jubilated. Perhaps, after all, they would not have to pay any reparation...
...from Governor Albert C Ritchie, Democrat, of Maryland. He objected that "many of our civilians and many of the members of the National Guard, too . . . already have made preliminary plans for outings on that day [July 4]. . . . I do not feel like asking either citizens or National Guardsmen to curtail their recreation for the test." He consulted with his adjutant general and declined to extend mobilization orders to civilians...