Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual three-day Whitsun holiday migration, the first important railroad strike since 1926 hit Great Britain. Seeking better pay, about 70,000 locomotive engineers and firemen left their jobs on the nationalized railroads. Rejecting government appeals to stay on the job, the strikers ground all regular trains to a halt...
...Aeronautics Board last week, the actions of Hawaiian Airlines were little short of outrageous. The CAB flatly accused the airline of using its Government subsidy money to try to throttle competition from smaller Trans-Pacific Airlines in the rich short-haul market around the Hawaiian Islands. To call a halt, the board overruled the recommendation of its examiner and cut back H.A.L.'s requested $1,300,000 mail pay for 1955 by 85%, leaving only...
...scramble for Africa," when Baudoin's great-granduncle, Leopold II staked out his monarchical claim to the uncharted Congo Free State. Leopold's rubber gatherers tortured, maimed and slaughtered until at the turn of the century, the conscience of the Western world forced Brussels to call a halt...
...nationwide program of vaccination against polio, so eagerly awaited for so many years, so recently greeted with clarion calls of hope, ground this week to a sickening halt. The U.S. Public Health Service recommended (and all states were virtually certain to comply) that use of the Salk vaccine be postponed until it can "reappraise" the vaccine now on hand. This includes 1) vaccine shipped to public authorities and now in their refrigerators (enough for 4,000,000 or more shots), plus 2) a similar amount still in the manufacturers' vats...
...plea for action to halt the recent emigration of Cambridge residents, a member of the City government yesterday called on the University and M.I.T. to initiate improvements on local middle-income housing developments...