Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meant nothing to Harry Bridges. His men were West Coast dockside workers. The Government offered them $1.37 an hour, whereas 700 A.F.L. longshoremen on the same coast get $1.38. Bridges wanted that extra cent. He stayed balky until it was too late to prevent walkouts in all major U.S. ports, then gave in with bad grace. There was an untidy rash of local stoppages which lasted until the seven unions involved could get their scattered locals to ratify the deal. Last to act were Bridges' longshoremen. After all, the deal covers them only until September 30, when their contract...
Oddly enough, there is nothing to prevent a Canadian firm from taking over and publishing a banned book like Bernard Clare. The responsibility for its approval or rejection then rests with the attorneys general of the different provinces...
America's Town Meeting (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., ABC). "Is Food Rationing Necessary to Prevent World Starvation?" Speakers: Senators George Aiken of Vermont and Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa, Fred H. Sexauer of the Dairymen's League Cooperative, and Harold Weston of Food for Freedom...
...third time in four weeks forced adjournment on Wednesday-calendar day-to prevent the FEPC bill from coming to the floor...
Honors at 16. Luckman is well aware of this. But he has always learned fast. Born in Kansas City, of a family with little spare cash, he started selling newspapers at nine, later jerked sodas, delivered groceries, clerked. This didn't prevent him from graduating, at 16, with top honors in a class of 2,000 from Northeast High School-or from being class president, yearbook editor, prom chairman, debating captain and a member of the track team. That he was voted most-likely-to-succeed was anticlimactic...