Word: halt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seconds later Engineer Hecox felt the monster locomotive swerve. The locomotive and its two power cars ripped loose from the train, plunged bumping across the steel bridge, sideswiping telegraph poles, coming at last to a miraculous halt on the other side. But to all but four of the remaining cars came disaster. Six jumped the bridge, plunged 15 feet to the drying riverbed. One car was skewered by a steel girder. Bodies and bits of bodies blotted the wreckage...
...would be in a hell of a fix if we had followed Mr. Chamberlain. We would be in the same fix we were in as a result of the Stimson incident [1932] when he and Sir John Simon endeavored to halt Japan's early conquest of North China . . . holding...
...jumped for joy on the sidelines, being for once the prospective beneficiaries, though not the authors, of a revolt in WPA. Violence grew. In Minneapolis a policeman was killed in a row between pickets and nonstriking WPAsters. As skilled unionists walked out, WPA projects came to a halt and unskilled workers were idle willy-nilly...
...years fiscal experts of every U.S. administration have advocated ending the tax exemption of Federal. State and municipal securities. Reasons: 1) it would close an avenue of surtax escape to the rich, 2) would halt the diversion of capital from productive private enterprise, 3) would discourage extravagant borrowing by local governments. But to New York City's peppery little Mayor LaGuardia, head of the U. S. Conference of Mayors, the whole idea is ugly...
Should Lieut. Naquin and his fellow officers have known that something was wrong in time to halt the dive...