Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the toll had risen to 48 dead, some 50 injured. And the New Jersey Public Utilities Commission belatedly ordered ''dead man" devices-which automatically halt a train when the engineer relaxes control-installed on all passenger trains...
...Grant Hotel, his stocky body (5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs.) rolling like a sea captain's, his brown hair carefully slicked with Vaseline Hair Tonic, his ample jowl set with fierce, self-conscious determination. Suddenly he stopped, whirled, brought the men behind him to a skidding halt. "Where is everybody?" cried Pat Brown. "Anybody missing? Are we ready to go?" An aide soothed him: "Don't worry, Pat. Everybody's here." Brown looked carefully around just to make sure. "Well," he explained, "I want to get out there while people are still going to work...
Code Lights & Pingpong. Inside the dormitory the new arrivals found their quarters (two men to a room). As they picked their way down the line of duffel bags, foot lockers, skis, banjos, rifles and packs, the "doolies,"* i.e., plebes, had to halt before passing an upperclassman to ask "By your leave, sir." In the well-outfitted rooms, other cadets pored over manuals, searching for instructions on where to place skivvies in the gleaming walnut dressers, where to hang battle jackets behind the handsome sliding panels of their closets. Instead of commands from a bull-voiced sergeant, they got fresh instructions...
...Cosmic radiation will not halt manned space flight, said Spaceman von Braun. The belt of radiation newly discovered by the Explorer satellites was unexpected, but most of it seems of low energy, and protection should be possible. Agreeing, Dr. Herbert York, chief scientist of the U.S. Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency, said the belt is probably only several earth-diameters wide at most, not enough for a fatal radiation dose during a flight of several hours through...
...State to open its own treasury by lowering rail taxes or subsidizing commuter trains. Other Eastern lines will also use the Massachusetts precedent as a wedge in their campaign for local aid. In New York, the New York Central is particularly anxious for state or municipal help, threatens to halt commuter service unless it receives...