Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...developing a new breed of sheep with short legs. They also are trying to develop turkeys with smaller bodies to provide small pieces for small families. I am sure these scientists have never been where they had to eat mutton cooked British style. . . . Legislation should be passed to prevent these scientists from further experiments. They should spend their time developing a turkey with four legs and two breasts so that the boys can enjoy themselves after they come home. . . ." ¶Outside Bombay, U.S. soldiers asked the aging Mahatma Gandhi to sign their "short-snorter" bills. The proud little Hindu, only...
...will be difficult to prevent for more than a generation. In some forms and in some places this war will not really have come...
...Prevent the wild "flash" floods which, through rain and melting snows from lofty Mount Shasta, have annually devastated the Central Valley's homes and agriculture...
...bind all the U.S. But in practice, WMC promised to allow plenty of local leeway, and claimed that the program was "voluntary." But WMC hinted at its power to punish any employer who disobeyed: WPB could deny him materials; OPA could limit his gasoline rations; other federal agencies could prevent him from negotiating war contracts. WMC also could give his employes automatic "certificates of availability" so that they would be free to quit (this threat has already been invoked twice in New York...
...decision was promptly hailed by Attorney General Francis Biddle as justifying his course in the Montgomery Ward case (TIME, May 8 et seq.). For the time being, in any case, it would prevent Montgomery Ward from having the law on the President...