Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, Fair Trade laws were never designed for a booming economy with an expanding market. They gained momentum during the Depression, when the National Recovery Administration fixed prices to halt price cutting in the fight for a limited market. In 1937 the National Association of Retail Druggists, a powerful lobby of 36,000 retailers and drug manufacturers, pushed the Miller-Tydings Act through Congress to open a loophole in federal antitrust laws so that state legislatures could legalize the fixing of minimum prices. By the end of 1941, druggists and other small retailers had pressured 45 states to pass Fair...
...fine line made his skin bristle and stopped his razor short. Housman put most of his own skin-prickling stanzas into A Shropshire Lad ("When I was one and twenty"), published in 1896 at his own expense when he was seven and thirty. This collection of unpublished poems will halt no razors. They are shavings of another sort, poetic chips and fragments from four notebooks Housman left behind at his death in 1936, which have already been combed for previous posthumous collections...
...will be any significant change in Russia's relations toward China. But, as he pointed out, during the short period of time when Malenkov was Prime Minister, there was a trend to ease the difference of the two countries, and there is no present reason for the trend to halt...
...could let this country go to pot, like the forests in China, Greece, and Turkey. But I don't think we're going to let it, now. It's been awfully nice, just in my lifetime to see things being done to halt that trend. I've begun to learn something, to make a little advance on what my father knew. Someone's going to carry it on from here. Maybe my sons. I'd like that...
...French seaside region of Brittany, a three-week smallpox epidemic slowed to a halt after catching 68, killing 14. Among the dead: two infants, a local health official. During the scare, more than 150,000 Bretons were vaccinated, along with all travelers and tourists. Cited as the bearer of the smallpox virus: a French army noncom just back from Indo-China...