Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France, did bravely in Norway until he was blown into a cellar; then he developed night blindness. His ambition: to descend in a parachute in the center of Berlin and wreck buildings. If Britain should be invaded, he plans to kill his whole family, including his stepfather, "to prevent them from being raped...
Similarly the churchmen showed little understanding of the price mechanism, and at one point actually urge that the supply of money should be "scientifically directed" to two often opposite ends at once-to maintain steady production and at the same time to keep the currency steady in value (i.e., prevent changes in the price level...
...Keep troops and war materials flowing across the land without delay, prevent congestion at seaports and strategic centers...
...Frequency modulation has just been adapted to telegraphy in Western Union's New York-Buffalo-Chicago-Washington-Atlanta network. It will prevent sharp weather changes from disrupting wire communications...
Censor Price conceives of his job as involving four main duties: 1) peripheral censorship (outgoing news dispatches, cables, radio, letters); 2) withholding at the source military secrets valuable to the enemy; 3) use of the Espionage Act to prevent publication of information of value to the enemy; 4) "voluntary censorship." Censor Price sees his administration of the blurred area called "voluntary censorship" in terms of newspaper libel law, i.e., when in doubt, see a libel lawyer (read censor) before publishing anything...