Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to learn from bitter experience that they can't handle it [operating the fields and the refinery]." Abadan was already slowed down to 45% of its 500,000-bbl. daily capacity. Another 20 days, even of reduced output, and the tanks would be full and the great shutdown would come. Reluctant to finally slam the door, the British delayed their departure from hour to hour...
...fill the need for copies at the vacation spots. If this year is like most, the Cape Cod area will demand a 700% increase over its winter order. Atlantic City, Asbury Park and the Minnesota lake area will quadruple, northern Michigan will increase five times, and Yellowstone, a winter shutdown, will jump to several hundred copies a week...
Police pressure has forced a temporary shutdown on local bookie parlers, so the man with the few extra bob must now place his bets with the fellow in the next room...
...reason for the shutdown was perfectly clear to La Prensa's publisher, Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, an unflinching foe of Peron. The stoppage was no labor dispute, but "a new episode in our years-long battle to remain independent." During the battle, Dr. Gainza Paz had been briefly imprisoned by Peron, his newsprint stocks had been seized and the paper had been harassed in dozens of other ways. News print rationing had forced La Prensa (circulation 380,000 daily, 480,000 Sunday) to cut from about 40 to twelve pages daily...
...these were only temporary trials. Last year's brief shutdown by the F.C.C., when the station's radiation output was too high, was only one of a long series of radiation problems...