Word: curtails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paralysis was creeping over the rail lines. Belatedly, drastic measures were applied. The Government declared a rail freight and express embargo, effective May 10, on all shipments except food, fuel and a few other essentials. Most industries could no longer ship or receive materials. Rail lines were ordered to curtail passenger service by half, effective May 15. Several lines, close to the bottom of their coal piles, took off trains at once...
Owing to the paucity of members who will attend college during the summer term, the Council also voted on Wednesday to curtail its operation during the summer. In its stead, a temporary committee composed of all resident council members and headed by S. Douglass Cater '46 of Montgomery, Alabama and Wigglesworth Hall, will conduct all business normally handled by the council...
Rejoice, Sergeant, rather than deplore the fact that the American girl has not let any Hitler curtail the flourishes of her lipstick. In spite of it, American girls are the most wholesome, the most natural and healthy, the most attractive in the world...
Professor Richards admits that Basic is "too frank" for diplomacy, but sees its use in "travel trade, scientific abstracts, and news reporting." He emphasizes, however, that Basic will not curtail the spread of other languages, and that "more people will have to be equipped to speak foreign languages than ever before...
...stolid Don Nelson, and bouncy Maury Maverick, chairman of the Smaller War Plants Corp., are in a minority. They argue that idle U.S. machinery and men should be free to use the mountains of surplus aluminum. (Fortnight ago the Aluminum Association stated that curtail ments in aluminum for war materials now exceed the total amount of aluminum used by the country annually before the war.) Last week SWPC estimated that two and a half million tons of steel in odd lots, shapes and sizes could be turned over to small manufacturers who have no war contracts...