Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other side of British policy-the political and economic promises given Kenya's nonwhites that most distressed Grogan. Three months ago, still a potent member of the legislative council, Grogan made a final bid to halt Britain's plans for giving the Kenya blacks a greater say in their own government. With calculated absence of tact, he let it be known that the plans were well rooted in a secret government promise to keep the main seat of power firmly entrenched in the hands of an all-white council...
FARM-TRACTOR SALES this year will trail 1955 volume by at least 20%, the industry believes. Falling sales, because of drought and lagging farm income, will force International Harvester Co. to halt production at two plants for at least five weeks, starting Oct. 1. Farm-equipment slump has also prompted merger talks between Chicago's J. I. Case Co., which has shut down two plants, and money-losing Oliver Corp...
...After a campaign whipped up by the local press and an outfit calling itself the "Fluoridation Education Society of the Carolinas," Mayor Leon Schneider of Gastonia, N.C. ordered a halt to fluoridation of the city's water. Symptoms falsely attributed to the tooth-saving fluoridation process: "excessive thirst, spine becomes stiff, nausea, mental alertness deteriorates, nails become brittle and peel, vision becomes blurred." One hysterical woman phoned the mayor: "People are dying like flies." In contrast, the U.S. Public Health Service reported soberly and scientifically on the tenth year of fluoridation in Grand Rapids, Mich.: it has reduced children...
...municipal plant. Whereupon Dixon-Yates (actually a combine of the Southern Co. and Middle South Utilities, Inc.) went to court demanding from the Government $3,534,778.45 it had already expended on the project. Last week Attorney General Herbert Brownell's Justice Department braked to a halt, wheeled about, asked the Court of Claims to dismiss the Dixon-Yates suit because-in the Department's words-the contract was from the start "unlawful, null and void, and contrary to public policy...
...after 23 had their say, Bulganin got up to cry a halt. Most of the ideas from the floor were "fine proposals," said Bulganin, and "the time will come when we will have everything." but for now most of them were "unrealistic." That ended their little essay into debating. According to Radio Moscow, "the Deputies warmly cheered Premier Bulganin," and then passed his pension law unanimously. Next day the Supreme Soviet made up for lost time, rubber-stamped 15 new laws in 35 minutes. Unanimously, of course...