Word: halt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This, then, is not the death knell of the Ivy League proposition. Rather we wish to regard it as the culmination of the first advance. A temporary halt, perhaps, will pass before the next march begins, but the movement has been started. We leave it to others to carry on. --The Daily Princetonian
...week the management postponed a meeting with a shop grievance committee from 11 a. m. to 2:30 p. m. A few key metal workers belonging to United Automobile Workers union promptly "sat down" at their jobs, bringing the whole plant, with its 7,000 employes, to a halt. Already idle were 1,500 Fisher Body and Chevrolet assembly workers in Atlanta who had quit ostensibly because several employes were fired for wearing U. A. W. buttons; and 2,400 in Kansas City whose professed grievance was the discharge of a U. A. W. man for jumping back & forth across...
...here the negotiations seemed to halt, for the advertisement was still running daily at last week's end when a third advertisement was inserted. It read: "Mable-We have received your communications. Police have not intercepted them. Channels are entirely clear. Your instructions will be followed. We are ready-Ann." With snow and subfreezing temperatures descending on the Northwest, police and G-Men, fearing for the safety of young Charles, who was lightly clothed and wearing bedroom slippers, reentered the case in earnest. From Washington Chief J. Edgar Hoover of the F. B. I. sent his chief assistant, Harold...
...handle Canadian sales and in July, when the Quins were seven weeks old, it called for bids on the U. S. rights. Newspaper Enterprise Association's $2,050 for six months was top. When that contract expired, NEA and Hearst's King Features Syndicate got together to halt a bidding contest at $10,000. In the spring of 1936, the NEA-Quins contract was renewed at the same figure...
...speed. Bugs which would die in an eight-day voyage can survive a two-day flight. Last week, in the December number of the Uni-versity of California Alumni Monthly, an article called Doctors, Insects and Air Routes explained a new harbor hygiene against inbound contagion. To halt immigration of any more such pests as the corn-borer, Japanese beetle or red scale, the U. S. Public Health Service insists that all planes from South America or Asia must be sprayed. Pan American Airways conscientiously sprays its Pacific Clippers with a pyrethrum extract at each stop. Aircraft from Canada...