Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serious, and rotund Mr. Moore, innocency personified, it is Senator Oliver P Loganberry, "The Watchdog of the Senate," detailed to New Orleans to investigate the machinations of the Louisiana Purchasing Company. Boss Man William Gaxton is anxious to prevent the Senator from making his investigation and attempts to sabotage shy, misogynist Oliver by filling him with "Mississippi River Water," planting Vera Zorina on his lap, and then snapshooting the scene. Baffled by Loganberry's purity, Gaxton tries again, plants Irene Bordoni in Oliver's bed, but the Senator tops his enemies again by marrying the buxom Madame Bordelaise. Louisiana triumphs...
...Congress to double income taxes. He wants to up them $7,600,000,000 a year in war revenues, thereby hitting the pocketbooks of all except the very poor, and "mopping up" part of the surplus earnings of persons with incomes under $1,500. This is specially designed to "prevent people from engaging in the futile effort to buy more goods than can be produced...
...doubling-up on teaching assignments, the History department has not only been able to prevent decreasing the number of courses offered undergraduates, but to allow the addition of courses on the Development of Modern Armies, 33b, and The Background of Anglo-American Constitutional Liberty...
During the blackout the air raid warden's duties shall be twofold: (1) To prevent panic, (2) to see that all lights are extinguished as promptly as possible. Police shall make plans to clear all streets during blackout...
...shall be visible from the outside. The windows and entrances to such equipped rooms or places shall be covered with heavy draperies, curtains, heavy paper, board or black obscuration paint, so that no light may be visible from the outside. Skylights shall be specially obscured on the outside to prevent reflection of lights and shall be especially protected from the inside to prevent in jury from falling glass...