Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy needed every penny of the money because costly $65,000,000 battleships were still the best available allaround naval weapons. The nation's highest ranking seadog announced that "recent air operations on the Coast of China" had convinced him that airplanes alone could not prevent an enemy expeditionary force from landing, and that airplanes alone could not successfully prevent a blockade or act as a convoy...
Mammoth elevated highways, which will alleviate traffic problems in cities, were visualized yesterday in a speech by Hawley S. Simpson, of New York, noted traffic research engineer, at the Harvard Bureau for Street Traffic Research. High cost would prevent them from becoming immediately practical, he said...
...will be remembered that at this time last year the Stubbsmen were undefeated on the eve of their departure to engage Montreal and McGill. They envisioned becoming the first winners of the International Intercollegiate Hockey League. Only McGill was able to prevent them from copping the championship...
With regard to the existence of a secret naval pact with Britain, Jones felt that any such understanding "would have to be very informal. At the same time there is nothing in our Constitution to prevent American naval officers comparing notes with British officers about their common field of operation, which is the Pacific...
...cloud of secrecy was that the Earl would do his negotiating with the Steel Exporters Association of America, an organization of big steel concerns. The Earl of Dudley was asked point-blank if he wanted to arrange price-fixing. Said he coyly but mistakenly: "You have laws here to prevent that sort of thing, you know...