Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would Alexander try to by-pass and encircle Rome, or attack it directly? What was to prevent him from staging another beachhead operation north of the city? Would he develop another flanking movement far to the east, at Pescara on the Adriatic...
...done and retribution will fall upon the wicked and the cruel. Miscreants who set out to subjugate first Europe and then the world must be punished. . . ." ¶ "We intend to set up a world order and an organization equipped with all the necessary attributes of power ... to prevent future wars. . . . There must be room in this great new structure of the world for happiness and prosperity for all, and in the end it must be capable of giving happiness and prosperity even to the vanquished nations...
...From Stockholm, TIME Correspondent John Scott cabled: "Serious armed clashes between SS domestic troops and armament workers have occurred in Germany during the past six weeks. Troops have tried to prevent workers from going to air-raid shelters on the approach of enemy planes. There have been several hundred casualities, notably in Dresden, Hamburg, Berlin and Osnabrück. But the importance of these clashes should not be overestimated. There will have to be many more shootings and casualties before disaffection spells the Government's collapse...
Free for All. In his new job, Mr. Elliott got off to a good start. He buttered up labor by arranging to consult with it-along with industry. He pleased factory owners by denouncing any scheme to protect competitive positions, i.e., prevent one plant from resuming civilian manufacture because a competitor was still doing war work. Small factories, which got a jackal's share of war contracts, are apparently to have the lion's share of the job of supplying U.S. civilians until...
...modest educational two-reeler, bearing the portentous title To the People of the United States, caused a row last fort night. Its subject: syphilis. Object: to help prevent the disease, by telling the facts...