Word: halts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regulate the use of residential buildings so that no more than 10,940,000 people can ever live in the city-compared to the 55 million who could legally crowd in under present zoning laws. Taking aim at an antiquated zoning code, the survey recommended: ¶ A quick halt to the conversion of apartments to rooming houses. ¶Provisions encouraging ground-level plazas around skyscrapers and apartment houses; for example, buildings with extra-sized plaza space would be allowed floor space beyond the prescribed limits. ¶ Reduction of commercial acreage by almost 50%, with emphasis on unsightly and inconvenient "ribbon...
...work ground to a halt, Théas appealed to Pope Pius XII, who put him in touch with energetic, persuasive Monsignor George Roche, onetime parish priest in Poitiers, France, head of a lay order, Opus Cenaculi (work of the cenacle). The group, originally backed by Melvina Rivet, a wealthy Canadian widow in her 80s, had raised millions to build schools and churches in France and Italy...
...Halt. Worrisome as it is, the Communist trade offensive has not discouraged West Germany's own drive to the East. Partly because of the poor quality of 30 locomotives which Nasser bought from Communist Hungary two years ago, partly by agreeing to accept some of the price in cotton instead of cash, West Germany's Henschel Works fortnight ago snatched an Egyptian State Railways order for 108 diesel-electric locomotives away from both Russian and U.S. bidders. And in the Ruhr several major industrial firms are mulling over plans for a "Mideast pool" which would merge their commercial...
...other continent has been so swept by foreign influence. Islam stretches not only across its top, but deep into the south-as far as the lower reaches of the Belgian Congo. Northern Nigeria is as rigidly Moslem as Saudi Arabia, and political meetings in Guinea come to a halt at sundown, when everyone troops out, shucks shoes, and bows to Mecca. Throughout most of Africa the ubiquitous East Indian minority, tirelessly busy at trade and commerce, has also left its mark: the "European" towns of East Africa take more after Bombay than after any city in Europe. In Kenya...
...proved that tactical air superiority is pointless over heavy forests in a Caribbean filibuster. Far more valuable to Trujillo are 1) his efficient small-arms plant in his native city of San Cristobal, and 2) the Rio agreement of 1947, which obliges the U.S. and its hemispheric neighbors to halt any invasion fleet bent on disturbing the peace...