Word: halt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nationwide building boom continues. Mr. Hoover recently recommended that the Federal Government refrain from building operations, as material prices are high and labor fully employed. The Federal Reserve Board has similarly voted to halt new construction of banking offices. Everyone in the trade seems to be making every effort to halt the rise in building costs, which has caused some uneasiness among mortgage companies and building and loan associations. In New York confusion has followed Justice Tierney's opinion that the Building Tax Exemption Law is unconstitutional. Appeal will be taken; meanwhile New York builders are bewildered...
...Stock and Cotton Exchanges experienced a halt and recovery during the past week...
Although the Bowdoin game food next on the schedule, the coaching force devoted a large part of its energies to preparation for the Centre and Dartmouth games. Captain Buell and Owen were kept out of the line-up, which enabled the men from the pine-tree state to halt repeatedly the Crimson rushes. At the end of the first quarter Pfaffman sent a low kick just over the cross-bar for the first score, after three line plunges had failed to gain the required distance. Bowdoin made a strong bid to tie the score, but Smith's 44-yard attempt...
...this point it is appropriate to consider what influence or influences will probably call a halt on the expansion of business when the time comes for it to turn the corner, and begin the slowing down process. In the past the turning point from prosperity to business decline has characteristically come when expanding commerce and industry have made such great demands for money as to cause a shortage or a stringency of credit. When that has happened interest rates have risen so high as to discourage further business expansion, and to result in a general slowing down of activity...
...Already shortages of labor are beginning to appear. As they grow more acute, competition for labor will take place, wages will go up, efficiency will decline, and business expansion will probably halt. While this is going on the existing shortage of railroad transportation will probably continue to be serious, and that in turn will increase expenses and discourage enterprise...