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Word: preventing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Council Studies Bill to Sell 30-Day Parking Permits | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schiller's Body Recovered from Deep Crevasse | 5/3/1949 | See Source »

...still Western Germany, whose recovery and independence Moscow had consistently tried to prevent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Lift the Blockade? | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the People | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the People | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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