Word: shutdown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colombian politicos did not seem disturbed by the virtual shutdown on wildcatting. Their country was bigger than Venezuela, they reasoned, with coffee, gold and other cash products besides oil. Many even argued that an oil boom would hinder the country's all-round development, and pointed to oil-rich Venezuela's deficient agriculture and industry for proof. "What will Venezuela have to show for lying supine before the drillers?" snapped a young Colombian oil-ministry bureaucrat. "Holes, that...
Heartened by its first profitable period in two years, E.L. last week ended its third shutdown by starting work on four films. The outlook was brightened by the box-office success of The Red Shoes, one of the films it has been distributing...
...Kerr still has time for prayer meetings and choir practice, In her way of life, religion and business are inextricably mixed. Whenever a Kerr glass furnace is relit after a shutdown, a minister is called in to ask a blessing...
...buyers' market in textiles, electric appliances and many another line, it was also bringing something like a buyers' market in labor. There was a sharp rise in the number of jobless in some states. The layoffs were also caused by a seasonal slump in building, and shutdown for inventory-taking, retooling, etc. In New York, the number getting unemployment benefits jumped from 320,544 in November to 461,280. But in such places as Pittsburgh and Detroit, there was no letup...
...some 400 northeastern foundries from their pig-iron supplies had whipped up terrific pressure from the foundrymen. Moreover, White knew that the plant, which Republic built, was so much a part of Republic's other operations that it could never be cut out of them without a long shutdown. Kaiser confessed that he was in for trouble unless the committee could "make a Christian out of White...