Word: halte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there remained a dispute in WPB about actually calling a halt in the $1,000,000,000-a-month cuts in U.S. civilian production. Since the nation was living on inventories of many goods no longer produced, few U.S. citizens realized how tight the civilian belt now was. Some officials thought it was already too tight for public health and morale; others felt it could stand another notch. Donald Nelson agreed with neither faction, took a down-the-middle view. Said he: "I have no evidence as yet to show that we have trimmed too far. On the other hand...
Even after the Marines had landed "the sentries were jittery on this their first night on the island. I awoke from time to time to hear the call of 'Halt!' followed almost immediately by volleys of gunfire." But with the first real fight the cool battle fortitude began to develop. "Down the beach one of the Japs had jumped up and was running for the jungle. 'There he goes!' was the shout. 'Riddle the son of a bitch!' And riddled...
...guard at the Miami Beach Army stockade saw the woman, aging (40) Ursula Parrott, author of Ex-Wife and herself four times married, hide the handsome boyfaced soldier prisoner in the back of her car. He shouted for her to halt. She stepped on the gas and charged for the exit gate. Escaping in this reverse Lochinvar was Private Michael Neely Bryan, 26, once a very hot guitar player with Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. He had been locked up for flying to New York without permission; also the FBI was investigating charges that he was involved in the transport...
Doubts of the practicality of a plan for purchase of student furniture expressed by College officials will not halt the investigation of a Student Council committee in that field, it was revealed at a meeting of the Council last night...
...Germany, which had 30 radio stations before the war, has picked up 98 stations in occupied territories (twelve in Russia). Last spring Germany controlled 16,000,000 radio receivers, required schoolteachers to halt lessons long enough to receive daily news bulletins. (Adolf Hitler: "Without motor lorries, without aeroplanes and without loudspeakers we should not have conquered Germany...