Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victory, perhaps, but averted catastrophe, was Wendell Willkie's verdict. Said he: "My fight was to prevent the masthead of the Chicago Tribune from being imprinted on the Republican Party. I am happy that the result prevented that calamity. Mr. Spangler has a great opportunity for progressive public service...
...market should be a just return for risks taken and jobs provided); 2) "a new (and better) undistributed profits tax" designed to keep corporations from hoarding money instead of putting it to productive use; 3) personal income taxes on a graduated scale, but never becoming so high as to prevent individuals from saving and investing their money; 4) a high - perhaps confiscatory -inheritance...
...similar difficulty attaches to Air Combat Trainer, which has been approved by the National Aeronautic Association. On a large board, picturing a photographic aerial map, players place planes which maneuver into combat, one player operating a fighter force which tries to prevent the other's bombers from hitting objectives below: power plant, docks, reservoir, bridge, etc. The game's defect is its complexity, which results from impossible situations, e.g., the spinner will often indicate moves to be made which the player cannot sensibly make...
...French armed forces, the Führer wrote, he had ordered the demobilization of the remaining units of Vichy's Army and Navy. The great naval base of Toulon, last remaining bit of the free zone, was to be occupied, the warships stationed there taken or "annihilated" to prevent their escape to the Allies. Control of all France would pass into the hands of Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, Commander of German armed forces in Occupied France and the Low Countries. The letter -many pages long-concluded with the "hope that cooperation thus is initiated from which...
...Dorothy Thompson: "To say [that such censorship is necessary] is tantamount to claiming that the most profound issues of this war may not be publicly discussed, or if publicly discussed, must be confined within the United States." Said Columnist-Radio Commentator Cal Tinney: Reasonable censorship of war news to prevent the enemy from receiving advantage is acceptable to everyone. Censorship of opinion is sabotage of the Four Freedoms...