Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Steel, the big muscle of U.S. production, was just as palsied. Three weeks of strike in its mills had been enough to hobble the huge U.S. auto industry. Ford Motor Co. prepared to halt production and lay off most of its 115,000 workers by mid-November. Packard worked on halftime. Layoffs would pull most of Chrysler's 86,000 employees off the line within two weeks. General Motors had cut down to a four-day week at some plants...
...steel-container manufacturers, some farm-equipment works of J. I. Case. In stagnating steel towns workers gathered morosely in the shadow of smokeless stacks, playing cards and trading worries as they waited their turns on the picket lines. Even an immediate end of the strike would not halt the grinding slowdown. It would take six to eight weeks of production to put sufficient steel back in circulation...
...platform, The Right Road for Britain (which has sold 2½ million copies since it was published last summer-TIME, Aug. 1), the Tory leaders called for a reduction of taxes and government spending, promised they would keep Labor's social services but manage them less wastefully, would halt but not abolish the nationalization of industry. They denied Labor charges that they would use "mass unemployment" as an economic weapon. But Churchill declared that his party could not lay out a complete program until it had "responsibility and power...
...Republican-controlled 80th Congress continually harped on its "mandate" from the people to curb labor unions and "halt the trend to socialism." But the mandate of the 1948 elections seems to have been trampled underfoot along with most of Truman's proposals. The people, as the President said, have a right to expect Congress to carry out the program which they, the people, have endorsed. The next session will be the 81st's last chance...
Ever since the first contest in 1882--except for a ten-year gap from 1912 to 1922 and a four-year wartime halt--Big Green partisans have ben storming annually to Harvard, bringing with them plans for gigantic parties, hoaxes, and raids. and more often than not the Crimson, in turn, strikes back...