Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-day on Saturday is the most inefficient work period of the entire week. To start a plant in the morning requires half an hour, and to stop it requires another half hour. ... It doubles the ratio of time during which no production occurs, while all the expenses of power, light, heat and general overhead must be borne without corresponding production...
...kingdoms of Elyria and Novia. As the Princess, Evelyn Herbert {The New Moon) is luscious-looking, hits good rich notes but experiences difficulty in making the lyrics intelligible. No such impediment is suffered by Actress Aubert who, in spite of her unfamiliarity with the language, manages to stop the show with a charming, multiple-rhymed ballad called "I Love Love," in which at one point she laments...
...charged up to traffic tie-ups and inconvenience in the United States every year according to Dr. Miller McClintock, director of the Albert Russel Erskine Bureau for Street Traffic Research which is financed by the Studebaker motor car company. Much of this loss is due to traffic stop signals which have been constructed either on an unsound engineering basis or without the justification of acute traffic conditions. Moving vans and commercial vehicles whose runs cost five cents a minute, and more, as well as pleasure vehicles are being blocked in some localities by signals that are 100 per cent inefficient...
...while the failure was a shock, it was not entirely unexpected. The actual news merely substantiated one of many persistent rumors which flooded W:all Street. Where originated all these wild tales, no man could tell. But no man could stop them. Cool brokers fought to quell them, only to catch the disease themselves. Denial seemed to lend authority. Some firms sent memorandums to all employes, warning them that to discuss another firm's financial position, even among themselves, was a breach that could not be tolerated. But as stocks kept falling, the stories flew faster. Weakness in certain issues...
...second half, Frame again scored for the Crimson, and in the final period, T. W. Carrigan '31 twice counted with two angle shots that the Penn guard was unable to stop. The Harvard victory was significant, since last year the Red and Blue was rated above the Crimson in the intercollegiate standings...