Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officers in Ankara: "We accomplished our mission in the Black Sea"—a statement which could cover bombings of Rumanian wells, an attack on the German besiegers to relieve endangered Sevastopol, assaults on the Nazi-held Russian port of Odessa, or blasting Axis ships in the Black Sea to prevent German landings in the Caucasus. Correspondents hazarded all these guesses, with emphasis on the oilfield bombings. The U.S. has lately received specific information on the locations of the most productive Rumanian wells, and bombing from Syria was feasible. In any event, any "mission in the Black Sea" was certainly designed...
...killer of U.S. babies is whooping cough, which takes a heavier toll than scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles and infantile paralysis combined. Last week, doctors at the American Medical Association meeting in Atlantic City heard reports on 1) a new way to prevent the disease in newborn infants; 2) the serious mental effects of whooping cough...
...Facing aircraft cylinder heads and other exposed steel parts with aluminum to prevent corrosion by weather, salt sea spray and engine heat (as in exhaust manifolds...
...just a handball player" we were told on good authority at the Great Lakes Naval Station that at the time of the [handball] championships Platak was in the midst of the three-week detention period required of all enlisted men in the Navy which is "necessary to prevent the spread of any infectious disease." Had Mr. Platak chosen to participate in the championships, it would have been necessary for him to begin his detention period all over again on returning to the station...
...Aegean Islands through Turkey. If so, the capture of Tobruk would be just an opening puncture for Rommel, as the capture of Kerch had been an opening puncture for Field Marshal Dieter Wilhelm von Mannstein. Or it might be merely an attack to test the British strength and prevent the diversion of British units to Syria...