Word: halts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Dr. Murchison & colleagues did was done with Occidental rapidity in less than ten days. Between entertainments of feudal courtesy and visits to the great clean mills of Osaka, they persuaded the Japanese textile barons to call an immediate halt on U. S. business, establishing as the quota for this year just 155,000,000 yd. of cotton piece goods, exactly the amount of business booked for U. S. delivery three days preceding the agreement. The surprisingly tractable Japanese further agreed that the situation in 1937 was abnormal, accepted a quota of 100,000,000 yd. for 1938 with...
Eight years ago the building trades had 1,600,000 skilled mechanics. Almost no one has entered the trades since, apprenticeship training having come close to a complete halt. Death, disability and departure for other occupations has meanwhile taken a 5% toll annually. Carpenters have turned farmers, plumbers have taken jobs with air-conditioning concerns, painters, plasterers and masons have gone to WPA. The favorite field for onetime builders is gasoline filling stations...
Into the vortex of the New York Cocoa Exchange one day last week dropped a single bid for 60,000,000 Ib. of cocoa. Placed by Hershey Chocolate Corp. and amounting to nearly $6,000,000, the order brought to a sharp halt a selling swirl which had carried down the price of cocoa nearly 25% within a fortnight and forced the Exchange at one point to suspend trading. The Hershey bid, slightly under the market, was not filled, but coming from the world's largest cocoa buyer the gesture was enough...
...Diet and order fresh elections. He relied on the fact that he and Navy Minister Admiral Osami Nagano are answerable ultimately only to the Emperor. He felt confident that with the Navy Minister's backing he could throw a big enough wrench into the parliamentary machine to halt it now, perhaps wreck it permanently. Now came the big surprise...
...than the Review's top circulation of 50,000 (achieved when the price was reduced to 4?) were put on the presses as pamphlets. At such times, Lady Houston's order was: "Keep on printing until I tell you to stop!" Sometimes "Lucy" forgot to call a halt, so the printers always arbitrarily ended their pamphlet press runs...