Word: halts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incident. Two Sudeten Germans astride a motorcycle roaring along the road to Germany near the Czech town of Cheb disregarded an order by a Czech traffic patrol to halt. Word flashed ahead to the next patrol and when the motorcyclists again refused to halt, the guards opened fire. Both Germans were killed. Anxious local Czech officials explained that the guards had merely done their duty, that both Germans were notorious Nazi agitators and had been implicated in previous serious political offenses, but soon the wires in every chancellery in Europe were humming. The Big Question hanging menacingly over Europe...
Police soon called the derby to a halt, as the spectators' excitement was endangering the quiet of a New England Sunday evening...
...Duce are, were not wasting anytime last week getting in on something similar to the Chamberlain-Mussolini Deal (see p. 16). The French Embassy in Rome, journalists learned in Paris, will attempt to get a Daladier-Mussolini Deal along these lines: 1) Italy and France would agree to halt radio propaganda against each other now being broadcast to the peoples of the Near East and North Africa; 2) the Addis...
...cost and delivery cost as determined from a number of basing points. This meant that when the Government asked for cement bids, the figures were almost always identical even to the fourth decimal point. Calling this practice price collusion at the expense of the consumer. Franklin Roosevelt tried to halt it with NRA, through the Attorney General's office, and finally through the Federal Trade Commission, which has been investigating cement for ten months. Impatient of results, Mr. Roosevelt last month directed that all Federal departments buy their cement through the Treasury's procurement division, that bids...
...harmony with this outlook came a chirpy release from the Department of Commerce, whose head, Secretary Daniel Roper, has been bullish all through the decline. Unwilling to predict, the Department of Commerce merely asserted that the decline has pretty well come to a halt...