Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clubs . . . smothered by respectability and enervated by timidity ... led chiefly by parsons more intent to please the congregations than to blurt out the disconcerting will of God . . . controlled ... by small-bore laymen fearful lest the Church blow ardently upon the latent fires of spiritual and moral revolution . . . impotent to prevent the war . . . [unable] to stand for prevention of a revengeful and dishonest peace...
...national service law-which, for the duration of the war, will prevent strikes, and, with certain appropriate exceptions, will make available for war production or for any other essential services every able-bodied adult. ... I have received a joint recommendation for this law from the heads of the War Department, the Navy Department and the Maritime Commission...
...Corporation will impound all war-material surpluses-machinery, tools, raw materials, even military and naval camps, barracks and flying fields-in one tremendous reservoir. Sales will be controlled. The trick will be to release material slowly enough to avoid a market glut and unemployment, fast enough to prevent equipment's becoming obsolete...
...bolster the authority of pro-Axis Premier Ion Antonescu, fresh batches of Gestapo agents arrived in Bucharest. Temporarily as in neighboring Bulgaria (TiME, Jan. 10), the Nazi hold might be strong enough to prevent outright defection. But neither the Nazis nor the orders of the quisling Premier could halt Rumania's rising panic...
...Army security officers frowned, brooded, gnawed their thumbs. What was to prevent an enemy agent from counting the bongs? Any spy with ears could check off the exact number of V-29s being turned off the Wichita line. Finally Air Forces public-relations men could stand it no longer, took the company to task. Nonplussed, Boeing officials asserted that the whole bell-bonging idea had been suggested by no less than Lieut. General Bill Knudsen himself. They hinted that until they heard from some higher rank, the three-star order was good enough for them...