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Word: prevent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...direct challenge to the Board's power and vice versa. The Board insisted last week that the Wagner Act "embodies a public policy of national concern and is the supreme law of the land on the subject matter covered by it. It empowers the Board to prevent any unfair labor practice . . . and expressly provides that 'this power shall be exclusive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Board v. Bench | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...Governor Davey, whose militiamen broke the strike in Ohio. Roared Labor Lion Lewis: "The steel puppet, Davey, is still Governor of Ohio, but not for long. I think, not for long! ... No tin hat brigade of goosestepping vigilantes or bible-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation-paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Year End | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...June with the failure of the Rightist offensive against Madrid, Leftist officials predicted that one of the next moves of the Franco government and its foreign supporters would be unrestricted submarine warfare to prevent oil, munitions, food, reaching Leftist Spain. Privately last week many of them were admitting that this campaign was being uncomfortably successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Submerged Pirates | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...town hall, captured a detachment entrenched in a seminary and took the town. Leftists announced 1,500 Rightists had been killed, 1,000 captured including 600 who had been besieged in the Cathedral. No word of their own casualties was forthcoming, but they were sufficiently impressive to prevent an immediate attack on Saragossa, under Leftist artillery fire for over a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Victor | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...move the gyroscope mounting and the flywheel will continue to rotate in the same plane. This stability provides a known factor which can be used to determine or counteract all sorts of variables. Sperry Gyroscope Co. Inc. sells a gyrocompass which is standard equipment on most liners, gyrostabilizer to prevent ships from rolling, gyro-horizon to indicate the attitude of planes in relation to the horizontal, directional gyro to indicate direction for steering a straight course. Greatest refinement of all is the gyropilot, which is standard on most airline transports. It has two simple gyros, one (directional gyro) spinning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Rigidity in Space | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

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