Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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America, says Lippmann, is a continental island in the great oceanic basin of the Atlantic and the Pacific, and hence is foredestined to try to prevent the establishment of an aggressively expanding empire in either sea. That, and not trade conflicts, is the real reason why the U.S. has fought two wars with Germany in 24 years and has always supported China against Japan...
...Vatican was busy with less secular matters-notably the beatification of Pope Pius X. For two days the Chapel of Relics in St. Peter's Basilica housed the body of Pope Pius X, who died in 1914, reputedly of a broken heart because he was unable to prevent World War I. The body lay in state, garbed in scarlet, white and gold vestments given by Pius XII. Two papal Guards, with drawn swords, stood outside the floodlit chapel as many a British and U.S. serviceman stared through the grilled doors at the Pontiff's face and hands, blackened...
...will probably have to advance billions to other nations: 1) to prevent world destitution, which would endanger American peace; 2) to enable countries which the U.S. needs as customers and suppliers to buy the American tools necessary to go back into business...
...Woods. Whatever the terms, Congress and Parliament will certainly criticize them and perhaps reject them. In fact, only one provision of the proposal is not likely to be criticized: after a three-year breathing spell no member shall (except by special permission of the Fund) use any devices that prevent businessmen from buying and selling freely in every country...
...advocates believe that aluminum dust may banish shortness of breath, chest constriction, the threat of tuberculosis. (Said one Canadian miner: "Aluminum takes the leather out of your lungs.") They also think that aluminum breathed after each day's mining or dusted into mines may prevent silicosis altogether. But the day of its general adoption is still a long way off. As research on the subject is not yet complete, Mclntyre Research, Ltd. (the original discoverers) has patented its use of the dust, will apply the royalties to further study...