Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friendship Train (TIME, Nov. 17) rolled on last week, its chain of boxcars lengthening like a giant beanstalk. It rumbled down the eastern slope of the Great Divide and over Midwestern plains. At city and whistle stop alike, additional cars bulging with food were hitched up. At week's end, the train had 207 cars, and it had still not reached New York, where a huge end-of-the-line contribution for Europe's hungry was already waiting...
They had remodeled the first few floors of a building on Gravier Street and called it International House. It became the symbol of the brisk new day. International House was designed to draw New Orleanians together in a common aim, to stop cutthroat competition, oppose tariff barriers, sing the praises of the Mississippi Valley and cultivate the commerce of all the world...
Dalton strolled into the House. Carvel went to a telephone and dictated 55 fateful words to his paper. By the time Dalton had been booming for 13 minutes (but before he had mentioned any specific tax changes), the Star's "stop-press" column told of Britain's new taxes...
...stop the buying spree which has been eating up the Dominion's reserves of U.S. dollars, the import of hundreds of items was abruptly cut off. Outstanding examples: radios, refrigerators, typewriters, washing machines, furniture, automobiles. (In the case of autos, the ban is temporary.) For countless other items, import quotas are established. Among them: textiles (cut to one-third of the last twelve months' imports), oranges, lemons, grapefruit, clocks, watches, toys, sporting goods...
Paris was a one-day stop. There Mackenzie King paid homage to the man who he believes is one of history's greatest. At the Pasteur Institute, where he asked photographers not to take pictures, he went down into an underground chapel, placed six red roses on the black marble tomb of Louis Pasteur. Then he knelt, his face in his hands, for three silent minutes. When he emerged his cheeks were wet with tears...