Word: halts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a paucity of initiative, enterprise, and imagination, the Harvard Combined Charities Drive has ground to a dismal halt. At best, it would be charitable to call the leadership of the campaign miserable...
...investigation into an attack on that agency. The committee would be all too likely to operate as a partisan inquisition, its Democrats seizing the chance to discredit the Administration. While Congress should question "the credit squeeze," which seems to have hurt small business and housing while failing to halt inflation, knowledge of the whole problem must precede a workable alternative...
...heart and its hearths to refugees from Hungary. Committed to formal neutrality by the treaty that drove the Russians out of their country less than two years before, the people of Austria have been far from neutral toward the refugee Hungarians. Alone of all nations, they welcomed the halt, the blind, the sick and the aged among the refugees and did not seek to pick among them...
...months of legal wrangling between the Swedish American and Italian lines over the responsibility for the An drea Doria's sinking (TIME, Aug. 6) came to an abrupt halt last week. In a quiet, unpublicized meeting held under the stern eyes of their London underwriters, the owners of the Stockholm and Andrea Doria reached an out-of-court settlement that 1) ended their attempts to fix the blame on each other, and 2) made it possible to establish a fund for payment of third-party claims, e.g., claims by passengers and shippers for injury and loss of life and property...
...United Automobile Workers President Walter Reuther, wanted to turn the hearings into a decisive round in the running battle over whether nuclear-generated electricity is to be pioneered by the Government or by U.S. industry. On the ground that the plant was too risky, they wanted AEC to halt the project, move it to a remote test area. AEC then would probably take over, giving the Government a big lead in developing one of the most promising power reactors now under construction...