Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the end of the coal shortage in sight, however distantly, Attorney General Daugherty is taking steps to prevent profiteering in anthracite in the future. He ordered filed in the United States District Court at New York a final decree for separation of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company from its coal subsidiaries, pursuant to the Supreme Court order...
Crosby was the only star for the University and several times came within an ace of scoring on individual sports down the ice. Twice in the opening period he forced Jenkins to come out from his cage to meet him and prevent an almost certain goal. The team, as a whole, showed signs of the gruelling contests with Dartmouth and Princeton, for there was not the same speed and endurance which characterized the two preceding games...
...amendment that would prevent issuance of tax-exempt securities...
Suit of Ohio and Pennsylvania to prevent West Virginia from restricting exportation of her natural resources...
...prevent incendiarism, special police guards have been placed at every Catholic church in New York during Lent...