Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordinance is not designed to prevent a parking lot or garage owner from getting a reasonable return on his investment, but neither is it designed to protect gougers," DeGuglielmo said...
...tied ourselves together with ropes," Dodge related. "All of us wore ico creepers on our shoes to prevent slipping. We had to watch a huge hunk of ice directly overhead for fear it might crash down...
...still Western Germany, whose recovery and independence Moscow had consistently tried to prevent...
...high-geared industrial plant. But Puerto Rico is too poor in minerals and natural resources ever to support heavy manufacturing. It can and must develop light and medium industry. The alternative would be a future in which only an ever-increasing dole from the U.S. could prevent starvation. That is why Muñoz Marin, applying the self-help principles of the Marshall Plan, has enlisted Puerto Rico in the uphill struggle...
...answer was the San José Housing Project, now almost complete, which will provide shelter for 6,200 families from El Fanguito. So far only a few families have been moved out, and officials privately admit that it may be necessary to ring the slum with barbed wire to prevent new squatters from moving...