Word: curtailing
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...this generation its degree in Indian nomenclature and the battles of King Philip's War, the Company is only waiting for fresh undergraduates in its highway university. This possibility, and the failure of their companies to follow a worthy example, have lead to attempts in New York State to curtail bill-board advertising through legislation prohibiting advertising in certain places and taxing it heavily in others...
Meanwhile the rumor persisted that the Metropolitan was so hard hit financially that it might have to curtail its present season or disband in the spring. Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, some said, resigned as board chairman this autumn because he was tired of playing patron. But people who believed that knew little of the Metropolitan's workings. Banker Kahn owns from 70 to 80% of the producing company's stock but, contrary to the impression he sometimes gives, he has never "backed" it in the sense that Mr. & Mrs. Harold Fowler McCormick once backed Chicago's Opera or that Louis...
Last week the bluffing Katangans suddenly realized they no longer held the upper hand. An event occurred which led them hurriedly to cable their agreement to curtail to 181,000,000 lb. of copper a year, of which only 115,000,000 or 26% of capacity would be for sale. But their acceptance brought no jubilation in the U. S. The same event which had startled the men from Katanga, took the U. S. industry by surprise and was no conference-table bluff. Copper's famed United Front was broken...
...person of vast enthusiasm and energy. Under his regime Seattle's Symphony has come to be recognized as a major U. S. orchestra. But all this autumn there has been trouble brewing behind the scenes. A $15,000 deficit has accumulated; the orchestra has had to curtail its season from 20 to ten weeks. Conductor Krueger gave $2,000 of his $15,000 salary to make it eleven weeks but he also announced his resignation, to go into effect at the end of the year. Although he said his decision was irrevocable Seattlites hoped that something happy might result...
...effort which the organization will make will be to curtail the number of schools for nurses. Another will be to make requirements for graduation stricter than ever. Probationers will be required to spend less time with their beaux and more time with their books, pots and mops before they may change the blue uniform of the student for the white uniform of the graduate nurse...