Word: halted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French Government's anti-inflationary program to halt wage increases was not printed in the Paris press; all newspapers were shut down by a printers' strike for higher wages...
...billion a month last May to $3 billion a month in December. There was even talk of something which the U.S. had not had in years, a balanced budget. But those who could see that in 1945 were farsighted. Yet the drop in federal spending had failed to halt the tremendous momentum of the economy. It rolled on like a great water wheel, gushing out money. It rolled into retail stores, movies, bank accounts. And much of it rolled out again to gas up the gaudiest Christmas spending spree in years. Yet, as store shelves were swept clean, there...
...Steelworkers might as well have announced that resumption of peacetime production must halt, for in the switchover from a wartime economy steel is the key. The Steelworkers, now the largest union in the U.S., have more than 800,000 members, contracts with 1,100 plants which make not only steel ingots but such more or less related products as nuts & bolts, thermometers, radiators, hardware, motors, refrigerators, kitchenware, paving bricks, caskets. More than 3,000,000 other U.S. workers depend on steel furnaces for the raw material which keeps them busy...
...said Colonel Bernstein, flatly contradicting what Byron Price and other trippers have reported, 87% of Farben's wartime (1943) capacity remained intact. Allied bombing had done no more than halt production temporarily in some key spots. Said he: "The first view of the enormous plant at Ludwigshafen . . . is that it looks smashed. . . . [But the plant] is working today without the damage being repaired...
...other languages. Each person in court would get a pair of earphones and a dial with which he could tune in on any desired language. Whenever an interpreter fell behind the proceedings, a yellow light would signal a slowdown. If the interpreter got really snafued, a red light would halt the trial...