Word: halt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Rangers blocking the free bridge, Governor Murray was determined that no one should use the toll bridge. Therefore he declared martial law-the first in eight years in Oklahoma-over the road to the latter span, summoned 32 guardsmen, including a colonel, three captains and a lieutenant, to halt all traffic a mile and a half away. After being duly photographed and interviewed, this force took up its patrol with orders from the Adjutant General: "Hold the fort but keep the cost down...
...Europe appears truly determined to face and cure its ills. Will it halt in indecision before these new manifestations of an egotism which feeds on itself, consuming itself...
Among the scientists, headed by fierce-mustached Professor Rudolph Samoilovitch of Leningrad, are two from the U. S.: Lincoln Ellsworth and Lieut.-Commander Edward H. Smith of the Coast Guard. There was a plan to halt the Graf over Kamenev Island in Northern Land Archipelago, lower an inflatable boat or a basket and take aboard Professor Urvantzov, who has for a year conducted an observation station there...
...Franklin Manufacturing Co. resumed operations after a two-weeks' halt. Unfilled orders are 10% higher than a month ago despite the fact that normal shipments were made during the shutdown, and deliveries to dealers in June have been 10% ahead of the same period...
...alliance between Standard Oil Co. of Ohio and the onetime Standard unit, Ohio Oil Co., was widely discussed. The reason for this hubbub was that the last day during which the U. S. Department of Justice could have appealed to the Supreme Court to halt the proposed merger between Standard Oil Co. of New York and Vacuum Oil Co. had come and gone, and the Department of Justice had NOT appealed...