Word: curtailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increase China's food supplies and also curtail the production of opium, Generalissimo Chiang last week directed the governors of five provinces to convert poppy fields into farm lands...
...prices of some items are still at the highest levels reached in 1937; some are even higher than in 1929. When high prices sharply curtail sales there is real danger. This is shown by our recent experience with housing. A year ago there was a serious shortage. We had unused productive resources ample to overcome the shortage. Yet all the major elements in housing costs advanced so sharply by the spring of 1937 as to kill a promising expansion of activity in an industry whose restoration is vital to continued recovery...
...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...