Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...race between population and food supply, said Sir John, population is winning, "and we do not know how to stop it." He pointed out once more that world population has increased almost 200 million since 1939. Harvests that would have seemed bountiful ten years ago are inadequate now. Sir John said that, for his part, he was going home to his farm...
...narrow breast of "Evil-Eye" Fleegle. As readers of Cartoonist Al Capp's Li'L Abner know, Fleegle, a saturnine resident of Brooklyn, has eyes of compelling power. Mother Nature, in a misguided moment, endowed him with the ability to transmit visual whammies. A single whammy can stop a policeman in his tracks. Slightly stronger whammies will tame a gorilla or stun a herd of oxen. Rarely, only rarely, does Fleegle loose the lightning bolt of a double whammy, which is powerful enough to heat a city the size of Wilkes-Barre...
...Conductor Jacques Rachmilovich arrived in the U.S. eight years ago, he was almost broke. For a while, he worked in a Los Angeles gas station. In his spare time he took over (without pay) the baton of a nameless group of Hollywood movie musicians who were so bored with stop & go script music that they banded together to play, once a week, some piece of music all the way through...
...Deal. Marvin E. Coyle, General Motors' executive vice president, told auto dealers they should stop forcing motorists to trade in their cars when buying new ones (dealers usually sell the trade-ins at far more than they allow the customers). Dealers' discounts are fat enough, said Coyle, without the extra trade-in profit. Said he: "If [the dealer] is assured that the new car will not pass into the black market, he should permit the customer to sell his own used car if he wishes...
...broken rail. Suddenly the screen goes black. Will Superman (who looks slightly flabby in the flesh) reach the broken-rail in time to prevent the wreck? Will he weld the rail with the glare of his X-ray eyes? Or will he straight-arm the train to a stop? Find out next Saturday in the next thrilling chapter of Superman...