Word: counteractivity
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...enemy planes drop poison gas bombs on Cambridge and the University, there are no preparations as yet to counteract them, according to George F. Hooker, Cambridge City Engineer in charge of sanitation. Decontamination squads play an important part in the air raid defense of a city, Hooker said, but the Civilian Defense Committee to date has felt that protection against incendiaries was more important...
...allowed to capsize? The fire had been doused in some six hours. When she showed signs of overturning, she might have been scuttled (to settle securely in the mud, only eight or ten feet below her bottom), or tanks on her starboard side might have been correctly flooded to counteract the weight of the water on her portside. One attempt at flooding was made, but it was unsuccessful...
...outcome to a much lesser extent than had been anticipated and the Yale eleven proved much stronger than pregame reports had indicated. They not only had better individual control of the ball than the losers, but showed themselves as adopt in the rough and tumble game Harvard introduced to counteract the finished work of the Bulldogs...
...color, and as the Independent Union, attempts to incite anti-C.I.O. sentiment in Quincy with the worn device of red-baiting. Early this week, an Independent publication went out of its way to dub the student organizers "ra-ra pinks." A deliberate endeavor by anti-labor forces to counteract the activity of students can only mean that the Committee is making its influence felt in the campaign for unionism at Fore River...
...Banking & Currency Committee) a confidential study which blistered Leon's britches: "Table-thumping and bellowing tactics. . . . Cannot resist the use of invective . . . capricious actions . . . anti-business views." Gist of the study: a price bill is necessary but it should: 1) clearly define and limit its powers; 2) counteract "the tacit encouragement of the Administration in wage increases"; 3) give power not to Henderson but to someone who "merits the confidence of business...