Word: halts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been unable to halt this drain on the railroad manpower pool. Traffic jams on most of the U.S. railroads are nearing the critical point...
Debs are almost uniformly dull, but they do give parties. If you get invited to the Brattle Hall dances or the Eliot Hall dances, go; if the war hasn't put a halt to parties by next year, you'll get to know "the right girls" and be eligible for the stag lines...
...fast and sudden was Rotmistrov's tank thrust, the Germans had no time to halt it. Then the Red artillery began to pound the encircled Germans, the air force launched its air blockade. In 14 days, 179 three-engined Junkers bringing in food and ammunition were shot down...
Officers were instructed to halt non-saluting G.I.s, take names and numbers, put them on report. G.I.s were told to halt any officer failing to return a salute, give him the same treatment. One ugly rumor was that G.I. provocateurs, who had previously saluted only officers with packages, were hunting the unthinking...
...bolster the authority of pro-Axis Premier Ion Antonescu, fresh batches of Gestapo agents arrived in Bucharest. Temporarily as in neighboring Bulgaria (TiME, Jan. 10), the Nazi hold might be strong enough to prevent outright defection. But neither the Nazis nor the orders of the quisling Premier could halt Rumania's rising panic...