Word: curtailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Police have begun ticketing motor scooters and motorcycles that are parked illegally on University property or across sidewalks, and plan to give tickets to speeders along University-owned Divinity Avenue and near Kirkland in a campaign to curtail accidents. They are also ticketing scooters parked in the Yard...
With the prospect of having drastic social changes forced upon them by the faculty unless a solution were found, student leaders met early this week to formulate changes which would meet with the approval of the Committee on Student Activities and at the same time not curtail too seriously the traditions associated with the Spring and Fall weekends...
...Government is now reviewing the barter system, may curtail or even drop it. While miners would welcome that, they fear an end to stockpiling, which would increase imports and send prices down. Last week, before a meeting of the American Zinc Institute, Assistant Interior Secretary Felix Wormser said frankly that stockpiling, which last year scooped 15% of slab zinc output (an amount almost equaling 1956 imports) off an overloaded market, has met its goals and will end "in a matter of months." The only solution for the miners' troubles, said Robert Hendricks, vice president of the Consolidated Mining & Smelting...
Cannon was still sure that Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield was bluffing in his threat to curtail mail services if Congress did not vote him a $47 million supplemental appropriation for the current fiscal year (TIME, April 15). Cannon was wrong: Summerfield was not bluffing...
...establishing such an arrangement, the HDC would help itself as well as the smaller organizations, and would help curtail the cut-throat competition that is now developing out of this polarization of productions...