Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half of 1957, Humphrey ventured that inflation might ease during the year's second half. But before week's end, the day after the President appealed for "statesmanlike action," Pittsburgh's giant U.S. Steel Corp. announced inflationary price boosts averaging $6 a ton (see BUSINESS). To halt the price index's upward creep, Washington was going to need some help from Pittsburgh (Pa.)-as well as Mexico...
...intimations of modern Manhattan-its skyscraping towers connected at the top by railroad bridges. The history, told in statues and bas-reliefs, ranges from the rescue of Captain John Smith by Pocahontas to the imminent assassination of Lincoln by Booth as Washington anachronistically holds up his hand to cry "Halt...
...colonel. "Go home quietly." The crowd cheered him, broke into the Marseillaise, then went on rioting. Sitting in his office in the gleaming white government building, Minister Resident Robert Lacoste read the reports of mob violence, called in the leaders of veterans' groups to urge them to halt rioters in the streets. But for all his anger and bitterness, Lacoste was helpless. Early in the evening, fatigue finally dissipated the mobs...
...scared by left-wing Japanese political attacks against U.S. bases in Okinawa, but at the same time has made it clear that he thinks the U.S. should relinquish some of its control over Okinawa's civil administration. He has stoutly opposed both the U.S. and Russian refusal to halt H-bomb tests, but he has gone publicly and vigorously on record in favor of a common front against both Russian and Chinese Communism...
Loophole. Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, onetime Air Force Secretary, said the directive in fiscal 1958 could stop the purchase of all Convair B58 bombers and F106 jet fighters, halt the procurement of McDonnell's F-101B jet fighter, Republic's F-105 jet fighter and Lockheed's C-130 transport, might also slow down production of Boeing's KC-135 jet tanker and B-52 intercontinental jet bomber. It could cancel all fiscal 1958 orders for such missiles as Northrop's Snark, Bell's Rascal, North American's Navaho...