Word: curtailment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...projects or that every existing business will get credit. It does mean that capital will be advanced to those businesses which can show by a record of their past operations and an analysis of their current progress that they can earn enough every ninety days or six months to curtail their notes so that over a year or three or five years, as the case may be, the notes can be repaid...
...mail service has completely broken down. Formal orders by the President, that the army curtail in operations and confine flying to a few essential routes really means the Pencial disruption of nation wide schedules of delivery...
Vacations are at best difficult to plan when a certain amount of curricular days must be included in the University calendar, but a three or four day shortening of the Reading Period which is now almost universally taken by the more liberal of the student body certainly would not curtail the amount of work which would be accomplished at that time. The majority of the reading assignments are with a little application easily completed within the allotted time and the subtraction of three or four days should cause no suffering, and might easily add to the pleasure of the holiday...
Cattlemen had asked Congress to appropriate $200,000,000 to subsidize beef raisers and dairymen who agreed to curtail production. This made Speaker Rainey snort: "It might prove more effective and far simpler than appropriating these sums for the Government to take over the packing industry and operate it by the Government's paying fixed prices ... if the packers continue to exercise their monopolistic powers to drive down prices. . . . They are interfering with the entire program and stand in open defiance of the entire recovery...
...Birth Control & National Recovery," to meet in Washington Jan. 15-17. Main argument: "With 3,500,000 American families dependent on relief for their bare subsistence, there has arisen an acute need for speed in removing the legal restrictions which hamper the poor families in their natural desire to curtail increase which only aggravates suffering and piles up still more enormous problems of public and private charity." Mrs. Sanger reports a "vast amount of bootlegging has sprung up" in contraceptive supplies. Contraceptive clinicians will be instructed at the Washington conference "on the relative merits of commercial products now being sold...