Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steel bottoms of their trucks. In the dark mornings the doughboys climbed out of their foxholes, sleepless, stiff-legged and red-eyed, to fight another day. The wounded died where they fell unless they were quickly picked up. The medics kept their morphine Syrettes under their armpits to prevent congealing...
...reserves he had massed to keep his drive going. The German power, assembled under the handicap of air inferiority, was also a measure of the failure by the Allied command and by Vandenberg's Ninth (the biggest air force on the Continent) to use air tactics to prevent such an offensive...
...beating down enemy air power on a line from Japan through the Ryukyu Islands to the Formosa Strait - bottleneck in enemy communications to points south, notably the Philippines. His planes harried air fields on either side of the 95-mile passage, on Formosa and in China, to prevent reinforcement of the battered Jap air fleets on Luzon, and to keep Formosa-based aircraft from attacking U.S. ships off Luzon...
...after war's end, should probably be dropped at once. But ceilings on scarce durable goods, such as autos and refrigerators, will be needed to hold prices in line until production comes up to demand, perhaps as long as three years after war's end. Ceilings would prevent buying power from being wasted on small production, at sky-high prices...
...Economist Clark, a postwar version of the War Labor Board will be needed to keep a temporary grip on wages, and WPB will have to keep a light touch on raw materials to: 1) make sure that small business is not squeezed out in the first buying rush; 2) prevent a speculative boom such as helped bring on the postwar collapse...