Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economists, Dwight Eisenhower last week issued an economic report to the nation that began bluntly with one of the biggest pieces of news since V-E day. "The paramount fact about the economy at midyear," he wrote, "is that the recent decline in economic activity has come to a halt." Two big specifics...
...ground when we should stand, and are failing to build our strength while we still may have the time to build it ... God has given us the opportunity to defend [our] way of life through adequate military strength. The sooner we attain that strength, the sooner we can halt the present drift towards a helplessness which can only result in the loss of the free world...
After Clark's refusal more than a year ago, the investigation ground to a halt. The subcommittee could not clear up or pin down its doubt about Clark, wrote a report full of inferences. The full Judiciary Committee, fearful that friends of Clark would attack the report's defects, dallied about releasing it. Last week, without action by the full committee, New York's Republican Representative Kenneth Keating, chairman of the subcommittee, released the report...
...news: EURJ Unemployment rose only 42,000 to 3,347,000 between May and June, far less than the normal 375,000 increase expected because of school graduations and vacation layoffs. Employment was up by 979,000, most of it on farms, but enough (142.000) was in factories to halt the down trend in non-farm employment...
...wheat stocks into export, the U.S. raised its subsidy to exporters, thus permitted them to cut export prices 10? a bushel (to about $1.75). Canada promptly followed suit, and Trade Minister. C. D. Howe warned that more price cuts would be made if necessary. Wheat trading slowed to a halt in England and other European markets. Argentina's Minister of Economic Affairs Alfredo Gomez Morales charged the U.S. with "dumping." Said Sir John Teasdale, chairman of the Australian Wheat Board: the cuts could result in "a repetition of the depression story when a similar price...