Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wilson is trying to halt the ruinous inflation which can result from huge defense expenditures. This inflation must be stopped at all points. Any wage increase, even if in response to a rise in the general price level, is almost always inflationary. Wage increases put inevitable pressure on the price level, which eventually yields. To grant wage increases because of a rise in farm prices is simply giving into inflation, for more prices rises must soon follow. It is just this wage-price spiral that Mr. Wilson is trying to prevent...
...alone." Said Dewey flatly: "It could not . . . fortress America is an illusion." The fall of Europe would mean Russian domination over Africa and Asia. Essential raw materials of munitions-chromite, manganese, bauxite, uranium-come from the mines of Africa and Asia. Without them, "our industry would grind to a halt." U.S. troops to Europe are a matter of "necessity for our self-preservation...
...tung's Red government announced last week that it was taking over Yenching on the grounds that China must be saved from "American imperialist culture." The Institute stopped contributing to Yenching December 17, but they had decided to halt the flow of money at an open meeting in New York...
...been able at the same time to pour billions in dollars and goods into the war-torn countries of Europe and Asia. He is calmly convinced that the U.S. can now turn to building $50 billion a year worth of tanks, planes and guns with only a temporary halt in the flow of new houses, bigger television screens and better automatic toasters. "The productivity of the U.S. is so tremendous," said Charles Wilson recently, "that if we started an all-out economic mobilization today, we could practically fill Texas with war machines...
Winston Churchill made a last desperate attempt to halt the Feb. 15 takeover of iron and steel plants. He moved: "That this House, in view of the record production attained by the iron and steel industry and the urgent needs of the rearmament program, is of the opinion that . . . nationalization ... is not in the public interest and should be reversed." Churchill called steel nationalization "a deed of partisan aggression . . . unpatriotic." A general election "cannot be long delayed, however tightly and even passionately ministers may cling to their offices...