Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Ramspeck, D. Ga., ranking majority member of the House Labor Committee, was assigned to draft the measure. He said it would "prevent strikes in defense industries unless the employer wants to lose his plant or the worker wants to surrender his rights...
...President's words appeared to mean that when the Government was obliged to prevent strikes it would not force capital or labor to give up what either held at emergency's beginning. If so, they were a return to the labor policy of World War 1 in which the Government in forbidding strikes froze the status quo in regard to closed and open shop so that neither party should profit because of the Government's intervention...
...this week the Maritime Commission was not fretting. The barges are designed mainly to carry Texas oil to the Atlantic Seaboard. If they help prevent an East Coast oil shortage next year they will have done their part...
...miles of water, 2. the failure of the large and idle British army to make an effective rearguard action with an army of 10,000,000 as its ally, 3. the failure of the one totalitarian force in the world with its own forts and inside lines to prevent huge German victories...
...European auto industry (before World War II) used thousands of tons of magnesium alloys in cars, though the U.S. industry has so far used little. Often this purpose was not so much to save dead weight as to give moving parts reduced inertia and centrifugal force, prevent vibration, fatigue...