Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little chore stood between weary Senators and their dreams of home. They still had to pass the 1941 tax bill. Most of the bill looked all right to almost all of them. Only one provision was good for a fight: the Finance Committee's amendment to prevent husbands & wives in the eight States which have community-property laws* from dividing their combined incomes in half and filing separate returns in a lower bracket...
...Germans, apparently feeling that they had plenty of time to break through to the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea, last week went to work establishing bridge heads across the Dnieper. The destruction of the mighty Dnieperstroy Dam, confirmed last week by German pictures {see cut}, seemed to prevent crossings...
Knowing this, Marshal Timoshenko was last week heavily engaged in counterattacks, designed to prevent the Germans from getting rolling again in the weather. The Reds called his efforts merely local attacks, but the Germans paid respects to "strategic counter-actions" i.e., the real stuff...
...League of Nations with teeth, "Equipped with an international police force empowered to prevent aggression and capable of doing so successfully...
...wages, 62.6%; raw materials, 52.3%; wholesale prices, 30.8%; farm products, 30.7%; retail prices, 27.8%; all-or-none, 14.3%. But, surprisingly, the financial and investment executives in FORTUNE'S group were almost evenly divided on the prospects of a serious inflation. Half thought that price and currency controls would prevent...