Word: halt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither dour Depression nor fickle Fashion have been able to halt the steady upward trend of U. S. cigaret consumption. Proud are U. S. cigaret-makers of last year's 120,000,000,000 production record. And also satisfied with the record is a potent French industry, the industry which turns out little strips of cigaret paper three inches long and one and one-half inches wide. For all U. S. cigarets are wrapped in paper imported from France...
...dismayed when Capt. J. F. Lucey, U. S. Government investigator, said that during 1930 that town suffered the worst depression in the U. S. for a community of its size. In the boom he sees new prosperity for Tyler, hence his bitterness in flaying those who would halt the gushers' heavy flow...
Laggard's Withdrawal, Far behind the great motor companies, partially obscured by their dust, the laggards of the industry in vain attempt to overtake their competitors. Last week one of these laggards drew to a halt, abandoned the race. Stockholders of Gardner Motor Co. Inc. were asked to approve the complete liquidation of their company...
...Supreme Court of the U. S., Arizona, unwilling partner to Hoover Dam, has pending a suit to halt the construction as an infringement on its sovereign rights...
...crime problems cannot call a halt to thoughts and suggestions toward prohibition repeal or revision. Educationally or economically the underworld can be conquered--victory being only a matter of 10 or more years...