Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present propose general consumer ration cards. . . . These debt levels [a 1943 public debt of 110 billion dollars] require an increase in the annual interest from one billion dollars in 1940 to above 2.5 billion dollars at the end of fiscal year 1943. Such an increase in interest requirements will prevent us for some time after the war from lowering taxes to the extent otherwise possible...
From 150 factories in the Detroit area, 1,028 foremen and supervisors went to a new kind of accident-prevention school last week. Its theory: some men are more prone to industrial accidents than others, and the way to prevent plant accidents is to cull these...
...makes him ruthless, cruel, lascivious. When his officer is not looking he spits in the white prisoner's food. He has no compunction (since there has not been time to build prisoners' enclosures) in whamming his rifle down on the captives' insteps, to break bones and prevent escape. At home he was gentle, sensitive; he cried at the movies. Now he is different: he has raped Chinese girls and can't help wondering what white ones would be like...
Messrs. Paley and Trammell had to think about these matters because it was plain to them that FCC's proposed regulations would not merely prevent such squeezes as Mutual complained was applied to it by NBC's Blue. The proposed rules were sweeping and revolutionary. They required that no station anywhere be linked by option-contract to one network alone. On the face of it, that would mean no NBC ... no CBS in their present advantageous forms...
...Many existing student organizations are sure to disappear during the present struggle, and to prevent the loss of their records, the officers are urged to deposit them now in the Harvard University Archives, on the top floor of Widener...