Word: halts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inevitable followed. On many tea and rubber plantations, work came almost to a halt. Red labor leaders called flash strikes on the slightest provocation. Plantation managers who balked at the strikers' demands found themselves faced with anarchy. In Kerala's 107° heat, workers surrounded the homes of the managers, cut off their supplies of food and water. On one plantation the workers urinated in all the rain barrels, were defeated only when the plantation manager ripped off the roof of his house and collected rain water in the bedrooms. Loyal workers who tried to smuggle food...
...defense acted as if the case were won before it started, U.S. Attorney John C. Crawford Jr. hammered hard at the evidence. Tobacco-chewing Harvardman Crawford paraded 44 witnesses before the court, developed the story of the beatings, insults and threats that added up, he said, to conspiracy to halt integration at the high school-thus violating Little Bob Taylor's injunction. Pounding a fist on a table, Crawford demanded a conviction "to save this honorable court. When an order is issued by this court, it cannot be flouted...
...Point No. 1: The U.S., in exchange for Russian agreement to halt nuclear-weapons production by some mutually acceptable cut-off date, e.g., 1959, would agree to an immediate suspension of nuclear tests for ten months...
...strongman was splashed with a storm of bad notices unequaled since he ordered the massacre of 15,000 Haitian migrant farm workers in 1937. As he steadily blocked FBI investigation of the double crime, magazines, newspapers, radio networks and U.S. Congressmen denounced him. The tourist traffic jerked to a halt...
...cures would hurt even more than the malady itself. Says Harvard Economist Sumner Slichter, who predicts a controlled inflation of 2% to 3% annually for the next decade: "In this imperfect world we are often compelled to choose between evils, and if the choice is between enough unemployment to halt the rise in labor costs, direct controls of wages and prices, and creeping inflation, let us by all means have the creeping inflation. It is the least of the three evils...