Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scarcity of goods, prices will go through the roof unless controls are applied. The controls must not cut down production or squeeze too many people out of business. But when selling prices are rigid, while costs rise, businessmen are squeezed hard. Then, argue the subsidizers, the only way to prevent price inflation, without interfering with production, is for the Government to pay the difference between cost (plus a reasonable profit) and selling price...
Washington's course on the home front has been set by a pure lack of courage, not lack of knowledge as to how to prevent inflation...
...California Institute of Technology, Physicist Alexander Goetz has worked out a chemical method for the National Research Council. His aim: to replace the salts in sea water (which prevent water from passing through the intestinal walls into the blood stream) with less harmful salts. The resulting liquid "cheats the palate and the kidneys," but will keep a man alive...
...Penicillin is quickly eliminated in the urine. A physician must continually check its concentration in a wound or in the blood stream to make sure enough is present to prevent bacteria from multiplying (penicillin does not kill bacteria; the coup de grâce is delivered by the white blood cells...
Dwindling manpower, machinery and gasoline may force many a U.S. golf club to close its links before summer ends. One middle-aged addict who wants to prevent this is Walter Prichard Eaton, Yale Drama Associate Professor, who has roamed U.S. fairways for nearly 50 years. In this month's Atlantic Monthly Professor Eaton hazarded a cure: ". . . All we have to do is buy a flock of sheep. They know that already in England...