Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Air Ministry had waited a long time for favorable weather to strike deep into Germany and Occupied Europe. One night the weather seemed just right: not too good to expose the flights to antiaircraft on the coast, not too bad to prevent accurate bombing. The Bomber Command dispatched more than 500 bombers to blast towns from Norway to southern Italy. New heavy Halifaxes, Stirlings, Wellingtons and Whitleys, loaded with Britain's powerful new bombs, sought out Berlin for special treatment...
...acute attacks, rest, liquid diet and drugs to relieve pain are "of the utmost importance." A few days in bed will shorten illness, prevent complications...
...carving windows in clogged nasal passages-is often "underdone . . . not completed." Scar tissue may grow in, choke up the opening. When done thoroughly, an operation may bring great relief in breathing. But, said Dr. Grove, since there are eight nasal sinuses all told, fixing one may not cure or prevent disease in the others...
...cement-and-dirt pavement can scarcely be broken with sledge hammers, can easily absorb the pounding of Flying Fortresses, is expected to last over ten years. Air force engineers who developed it expect small cracks to appear during the winter, will seal the field with asphalt to prevent ice heaves...
...Taxation," declared Harris, "should play an increasing part to help prevent inflation." He urged that we attempt to raise the tax bill by at least five billion dollars annually, and suggested that this be apportioned 1 1/2 billions from payroll taxes, 1/2 billion from excise taxes on luxuries, 1/2 billion from corporations, and 2 1/2 billions from individual income taxes...