Word: curtails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would have only to write a short note to the colleges concerned, demanding them to remit certified checks for sums whose total would run up into millions. Harvard, M.I.T., Amherst, Radcliffe, Wellesley, Smith, and other colleges that cannot meet the sixty-five percent requirement would immediately be forced to curtail expenditures for instruction, research, scholarships, and salaries...
...Perhaps at my age, in any case," wrote Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt, 62, "it is wise to curtail one's activities." What moved her to the reflection: five months after she had dozed her way into a smashup (TIME, Aug. 26), New York State got around to taking away her driver's license...
...nation began paying its pound of flesh last week for the steel and coal strikes. All over the country, the vise-tight pinch on steel and other metals began to shut down plants or curtail industrial production. Though U.S. industry was still far from capacity, production was already bumping the materials ceiling...
Encouraged by this, other countries (Mexico, India) refused to sign with the U.S. unless they got a similar split. This would curtail operations of many a U.S. airline. They have the equipment to fly to Mexico, for example, far oftener than the Mexicans can fly to the U.S. Only Brazil signed a five freedoms pact with the U.S. The U.S. was virtually stymied unless it came to an understanding with Britain...
...wait upon the practical necessity of keeping Special Yarns out of the red. Then the war came. Little found himself busy on war work (parachutes, jungle hammocks, etc.) until the Army suddenly began to cancel contracts in 1943. Carefully Royal Little weighed his chances, decided not to curtail production but to reconvert, expand and integrate...