Word: moratorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would not commit itself. Yet it was openly concerned about the plight of the miners. Its raw materials chief, Jesse C. Johnson, was re-examining the wisdom of the moratorium on mill construction, will report to the congressional committee in mid-March...
...fish split the Northwest. Washington State's Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson gulped hard and said he was all for the big Nez Perce dam. He was joined by some defecting fishermen willing to sacrifice sport for power. Against them, loyal fishermen hotly proposed a ten-year moratorium on all middle Snake River dams while fish-saving technology improves, and Dr. Alfred J. Kreft, president of the Oregon division of the powerful Izaak Walton League, said he will "raise all hell" to press it in Congress. Oregon's Democratic Senator Richard Neuberger, a staunch conservationist, said he could...
...program for a five-year renewal of the reciprocal trade agreement act. (G.O.P. leaders have told him he will be lucky to get three years.) Such reclamation-conscious Senators as Minnesota's Thye and California's Knowland are balking at Ike's proposal for a moratorium on reclamation projects to help keep the budget in balance...
...DEBT MORATORIUM has been declared by British creditors of low-flying Capital Airlines for January-March period. Capital has been paying $1,000,000 a month on $70 million debt for its 60 Vickers Viscount turboprops. But company lost about $2,000,000 on its 1957 operations because of rising costs, got payments delay to tide it over slack winter-travel season...
...electorate, and the core of Menderes' strength. Before dissolving itself for the elections, the one-house Grand National Assembly, which is dominated by Menderes' Democratic Party, rushed through appropriations for new highways and schools and even repairs on mosques in farm villages. It declared a one-year moratorium on $345 million in farmers' debts to the government. This was familiar pork-barrel politics. But in his determination to win the October election, Menderes added another touch. His supporters rammed through a law that forbids Turkey's three other parties to form an election coalition against Menderes...