Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secondly, since Great Britain is having ships sunk at a rate of twice her capacity to construct ocean-going crafts, sooner or later there will not be enough ships available. To prevent any such eventuality, the League proposes the use of American merchantmen and naval warships for convoy duty...
Last week's Government plans were announced by spruce, aristocratic Captain Oliver Lyttelton, President of the Board of Trade. For months Britain has cut the production of consumers' goods by price controls, taxes, limitations on supplies, propaganda. The aim has been to free labor for war industries, prevent inflation, encourage investment in war securities as against general spending. As a result most consumers'-goods industries have recently worked only part time, often at as little as 20% of capacity. Last week Captain Lyttelton pointed out that these part-time operations were eating up the factories' working...
...that arm," and he did. When World War II broke, he was too old to fight but he wanted to help. Turning up in Ottawa in dowdy clothes spotted by cigaret ashes, he promoted a laboratory for aviation research. Rumor had it that he was working on ways to prevent "blackouts" (brief losses of consciousness) in fighter pilots pulling out of steep dives. It was in connection with this work that he was flying to England...
Under strict party discipline, faculty members were occasionally given proletarian tasks to perform "to prevent excessive pride." E.g., they had to paste surreptitiously on subway windows and pillars stickers with slogans such as Defend the Soviet Union and All Out May Day. Comrades had to get permission to travel, do scholarly research, study for higher degrees. The comrades mortally feared detection; one even wore gloves when he edited a campus Communist sheet, to avoid leaving fingerprints...
...necessity of maintaining a full kitchen force of the same size as that used now as well as the need for hiring more busboys to clear away used dishes would keep costs up and prevent the rate from dropping more than a dollar...