Word: hinder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intelligence had disclosed the make-up of the Japanese attacking force, which presumably our profound scholars in Washington cubbyholes had identified by deciphering the secret Japanese code, there would have been a violation of the Espionage Act. ... Of course the Japs would immediately change their code and that would hinder our war effort and endanger our fighters until we cracked their new code...
Whatever the Treasury wants on next year's war taxes, said Chairman George, the Treasury shall have, so long as it does not hinder wartime production. Mr. Morgenthau's little lunch had been a very successful party...
...terrain from Chernigov to Kiev is marshy; that from Kremenchug is muddy. How much would marsh and mud help the Russians, hinder the Nazis...
...those vast, mountain-skipping ideas that most Americans instinctively like, and that seem to swallow the objections of interested parties like a century of U.S. history. Yet Americans are also logical, and in 1941 the logical question about such a project is: does it help or hinder defense? Whatever it does to rail traffic, the Seaway job must divert men and materials from the manufacture of planes, guns, ships...
...meeting of German consuls in South America, set up a commission composed of two Japanese, an Italian, a German, to look after Axis interests in Latin America. A subsidiary, the Inter-American Abstention Committee, was also formed. Purpose: to keep in touch with U.S. isolationists, encourage those who would hinder U.S. aid to Britain...