Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Larsen: "Our magazines are dedicated to" the distribution of informa tion - and this applies to their advertising as well as to their editorial pages. Just as the work of our world could not go on without the swift ex change of news - so would our economy, grind to a halt without the swift exchange of goods and news about those goods." The advertisements in TIME'S International editions, like those in other U.S. publications distributed overseas, constitute a major medium for the ex change across our borders of news about goods and their sources. Naturally, the advertisers are conducting...
There have been three great economic crises which will stand, fairly or unfairly, as black marks against the Socialist government's handling of the nation's economy. First there was the fuel crisis (February 1947), which brought the whole nation to a grinding halt in the depth of a terrible winter. Then came the convertibility crisis (August 1947), when the financial reserves drained away at an alarming rate until exchange control was quickly restored to plug the leak. Finally, there was last September's devaluation...
...York's Idlewild Airport on a sunny morning sped Charles Luckman, 40, the hustling, $300,000-a-year president of Lever Bros. There, a sleek Constellation rolled to a halt and from it stepped his two bosses, who also happen to be two of the world's most potent tycoons-pipe-smoking Sir Geoffrey Heyworth, boss of Britain's Lever Brothers & Unilever, Ltd., and Paul Rykens, boss of Holland's Lever Brothers & Unilever N.V. Between them, Sir Geoffrey and Rykens run the globe-girdling Lever soap empire with some 500 subsidiaries in over 40 countries...
Arguing against the Soviet proposal, U.S. delegates point out that use of the veto would make the control system meaningless, since one of the Big Five could halt punishment of its own violation. Britain, speaking for the Commission majority, states that "periodic" inspection would mean no control at all: a country could easily cover up a violation before the UN inspectors made their visit...