Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planes come from behind the Iron Curtain? The West German Defense Ministry did not know. Then what of the extensive and expensive radar net set up by West Germany and its NATO allies to prevent just such incursions? A Defense spokesman replied embarrassedly that there had been no reports of planes appearing on any radar screen, and added bleakly: "We have no idea what aircraft bombed Knechtsand. The investigation is continuing...
...Later, an ambitious Dutchman named Herman Bernhard showed up, opened a competing Benelux Casino complete with free drinks, a parking lot and twelve croupiers. By 1954, five casinos were operating-though not always smoothly. At one point, Bernhard had a moat dug around Moerland's Woodside Club to prevent customers from either going in or coming out. Moerland, who now owned a piece of his own in the disputed 35 acres, retaliated by importing gangs of thugs. Finally, after Brussels and The Hague were unable to settle the muddle, the dispute went this week before the International Court...
...party declared that "Fidel was astonished at his warm reception. It profoundly changed his thinking about the U.S." Red-liners in the Castro movement were worried. Major Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, pro-Communist commander of Castro's bloody Cabana Fortress in Havana, warned that "foreign influences are trying to prevent the success of the revolution...
...account for 50% of a paper's budget, has soared from $41 a ton in 1933 to $135. The Linotype machine that sold for $8,000 twenty years ago costs $20,000 today. Technological gains in efficiency are largely neutralized by the fact that powerful shop unions prevent management from cutting payrolls, even though only half as many men may actually be needed to tend the new equipment. Union "make-work" practices such as "bogus"-the needless resetting of ads originally received in mat or plate form-waste millions of dollars a year. And labor costs have maintained...
...this new competition has raised the question of how the U.S. can prevent itself from being priced out of world markets. Inland Steel's Smith is not alone in asking how much longer the U.S. can afford the contrast between the $3.03 average U.S. steel wage and, according to latest available figures, the 89? average for Luxembourg, the 78? average for Belgium, the 68? average for West Germany, or the 41? for Japan. One obvious but unlikely solution is for foreign countries to raise wages faster, share more of the benefits of rising productivity with their workers...