Word: curtailment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keith stressed the fact that the measure was in no way intended to limit the scope of the party or curtail the fun. The way things stand now, he said, leaves more responsibility on the shoulders of the committee, and the success or failure of the event is pretty much dependent on how much work...
...Senator Alben Barkley, Kentucky); "My digestion is not good enough to take it down at one gulp" (Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan); "I'm for adequate national defense, if it takes our shirt" (Senator Tom Connally, Texas); "... a trick budget . . . juggling of figures . . . what we need today is to curtail drastically non-defense spending . . ." (Senator Harry Byrd, Virginia...
...government coordinating agency with power to draft idle machine tools and put them to work on defense material and authority to curtail non-military production in commercial plants and turn the increased capacity to the defense effort...
...Brass. Dallas' com plaint: in October, Japan got 3,775 tons of zinc, in 1940's first ten months, 12,042 tons. Meanwhile, Brass mills working on cartridges, shell cases, detonator caps, rotating bands, fuse caps, other munitions for British and U. S. use, have had to curtail production and delay deliveries...
...Steelman Stettinius, told him he wanted less talk about steel and more steel. Weighing on his mind were such facts as this: if the railroads were at last to start buying equipment in a big way. the Government, to give the railroads priority in steel, would have to curtail civilian sales & employment. This week Stettinius' materials division rushed work on its final steel report to be handed to the President when he returns. Meanwhile the National Resources Planning Board fortified the expansionist position with a steel report of its own. (Author: Louis Paradiso, under the direction of Gardiner...