Word: moratoriumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Therefore the Harvard Student Union protests the Administration's request for a moral embargo imposed against the Soviet Union, and opposes the proposed loan to Finland of $70,000,000 to the Finnish government and the proposed moratorium on Finnish war debts...
...days later-three days before his deadline-he rose before the Interparliamentarians and, with a wild look in his eye, proposed a 30-day moratorium during which Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy would talk things over; if the four powers failed, said Ham Fish, the problem should be refered to the Kings of Norway and of the Belgians and the President of Switzerland...
...road's run-down Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, unused for 15 years, for $2,000,000. Last November the Interstate Commerce Commission allowed Dan Willard to cut his fixed charges $11,000,000 a year by persuading the bondholders to accept an eight-year moratorium on interest payments. Last week Dan Willard personally appeared before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee to ask that Congress spare him the "personal disgrace" of a B. & O. bankruptcy by passing the Chandler Bill...
...hotelman, realtor, world's No. 1 streetcar-card adman, whose company's posters are said to be seen by 1,200,000,000 people per month; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1933, Barren Collier, always a big-time speculator, announced he was broke, declared a moratorium, became the first U. S. tycoon to take advantage of the amendment to the bankruptcy law which President Hoover signed day before he left office...
They see the fight between men and machines as the central drama of our time, but they think the solution lies in controlling machines, not hating them. The great industrial novel, they contend, will be written when men cease dreaming of such sentimentalities as a return to handicraft, a moratorium on inventions. Such a novel, they prophesy, will find its ideal subject in the automobile industry...