Word: halt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tools, machinery, and other products. Among these, metals and metallic alloys stand preeminent. Industrial builders in all fields are constantly demanding metals which will successfully meet more severe and exacting needs. Unless the metallurgist is able to supply this need further advance must of necessity come to a halt. The remarkable progress in the art of metallurgy during the last thirty years has been accomplished by the rigorous application of scientific methods leading to the development of the science of metallography...
...Rising Tide" and its million and a half copies may be seen not only a 1937 application of the Gospel, but also the acknowledgement by newspaper men of the demand for a primarily clean tabloid. From below and above a move may thus be now in motion to halt the vicious circle which degrades the journal as a source of reliable information, as a force on public opinion, and as a vehicle of education...
...have sworn allegiance to I.A.T.S.E.; in the projection booths of the nation's theatres, I.A.T.S.E. rules the roost. Should Tsar Browne and his lieutenant, William Bioff, call their men out on strike, practically the entire business of making and showing motion pictures could be brought to a jolting halt...
...start of a special session called before the current slump had been diagnosed as much more than a technical reaction in stocks, Franklin Delano Roosevelt spent the week much as Herbert Hoover spent November's second week eight years ago: holding conferences to find some way to halt the decline, to restore confidence throughout the land...
...ordering traders to reveal their market positions without easing the strain, the Chicago Board of Trade suspended trading in September corn, ordered all deals settled at a price of $1.10½ a bu. It was the first time since 1918 that such emergency action had been necessary to halt a corn squeeze...