Word: halte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Valpey's football team, getting its first workout of the week, ground to a halt when the power failure plunged the cage into darkness at five o'clock. The girls were more inventive; they played bridge by candlelight...
...user could not help but conclude that the chances of getting more steel were more than ever against him. Steel production last week reached 98.5% of capacity, a new peacetime high. But the industry's voluntary allocations program, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer reported, was "grinding to a halt." The reason, said Sawyer, was that Congress failed to extend the allocations law beyond its March 1 deadline, leaving hardly enough time for all the steps involved in making new allocations ("careful study" of every application, followed by public hearings, followed by the usual 60-day notice to steelmakers...
...made a few specific promises: an increased minimum wage, broadened and increased social-security benefits, a strengthened Department of Labor, vigorous antitrust enforcement, action to "break the log jam in housing" and to halt "soaring prices." But he left labor still wondering what Taft-Hartley changes, if any, he would propose. Said Dewey: "The new law is not perfect. No law, or any other human handiwork is perfect. It can always be improved and wherever and whenever it needs change it will be changed...
Television's growing pains have been showing up on receiving screens as wobbly pictures and queer noises. Last week FCC Chairman Wayne Coy ordered a halt of from "three to nine months" on approvals of new TV station applications...
...boom was tapering off, but he saw no bust in sight. There were plenty of signs of the boom's end, he told the Mortgage Bankers Association in Manhattan, "in the slackening rate of increase in spending, in the slower rise in prices and wages, in the halt of the increase in bank credit, and in the drop in the net export surplus...