Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Richmond was faced with the tenure problem. Its imminence was graphically brought home to him when his friend Whit lost his position. But Oliver refused to engage in apple-polishing in order to keep his own job, and he could only hope that his teaching and book-reviewing would prevent the axe from falling on him. Oliver had domestic as well as academic problems, moreover, for his daughter Carol revolted against the conventional manner in which Oliver and his wife had been bringing...
...supplies from Ireland. Worse still, the same invading plague was already entrenched in Britain. In England this week there have been the worst attacks of foot-&-mouth disease in years and the public has begun to clamor against the Government's policy of slaughtering all infected beasts to prevent its spread. Reason: cattle are scarce, and the disease, though highly contagious, is rarely fatal to animals...
...night after Bigger has driven the girl home from a party, he helps her stagger to her room. She drunkenly insists on his staying there a while. The girl's blind mother enters and, in desperately trying to prevent the girl from giving his presence away, Bigger accidentally smothers her to death. A reporter later discovers that Bigger has burned the girl's body in the furnace, and the Negro is captured in an empty house. A Darrowesque lawyer (Ray Collins) makes a plea for Bigger's life on the ground that racial oppression must inevitably lead...
...State-operated syndicates, controlled coal from the mine to the consumer. It was not a successful arrangement. Producers resented State intrusion, labor kicked, consumers got more red tape than coal. Last winter while Berliners were shivering in their apartments, coal was sprinkled on the streets of other cities to prevent skidding...
...syndicates, the producers formed the Reich Coal Association, modeled it along cartel lines, chose as its head Paul Pleiger, a businessman who is also general manager of the Hermann Goring Works. His first move was to create "coal shock reserves" strategically scattered throughout the Greater Reich, and intended to prevent shortages in case of "railroad congestion" (i.e., R.A.F. bombing). The Volkischer Beo-bachter gave Herr Pleiger its official Party blessing, called the new coal setup "an extension of initiative," declaimed: "The [German] entrepreneur today, in contrast to the time of democracy, no longer looks into an insecure future...