Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...danger was that price rises would not stop there. A spokesman for Ben Fairless' U.S. Steel, the bellwether of all U.S. industry, argued that the higher costs could be absorbed between mine and consumer, that assured production was more important now than a slight price rise, that anything was better than another coal strike. The argument had a slightly brassy ring...
Margaret Sanger Slee, 63, who has borne the brunt of the American battle for birth control (and three children), advised Europe and Asia to stop having babies for ten years. Hungry countries should not "bring any more children into the world to starve," she proclaimed. Did that include England? "Definitely," she said, and took a plane to tell that country all about...
When church circles were bemoaning the morals of the speakeasy generation, the Rev. Daniel Alfred Poling used to say, "Stop slandering youth!" Strapping (6 ft. 1 in.), 62-year-old Dan Poling still has a good word for the younger generation. This week, as keynote speaker, he opened the San Francisco convention of some 5,000 delegates of the Christian Endeavor Union, the flourishing, 4,000,000-member youth organization which he has headed for the past 22 years...
...There are two things hanging over the country today," declared General Motors President Charles E. Wilson. One is a long coal strike; the other, "propaganda in high places that prices are too high and profits excessive." How to stop the "propaganda"? The Wilson recipe: "Have faith. The truth will prevail...
...finally satisfied that Preston Tucker was telling the truth about his financing. So last week it withdrew its stop order and allowed Tucker to float $20 million worth of stock to finance the production of his rear-engined automobiles (TIME, June 23). The Commission had no choice; it cannot bar anyone from selling the stock as long as the truth is told about the issue...