Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the America First Committee was working overtime to prevent transfer of more destroyers and bombers to Britain, was girding its loins for the next session of Congress, to fight repeal of the Johnson Act (no loans to defaulters on World War I loans) and the Neutrality Act (cash & carry aid only...
...Totalitarian methods of pressure" would be used by the Axis in the event of a British defeat if they did not even attempt to attack this country directly and immediately. To prevent such dangers, speedy action "to be decided by military authorities on the basis of maximum effectiveness against the Axis powers" should be taken...
...world safety record in air travel that was established . . . before it [the Board] was abolished by Reorganization Plan No. 4. They know it can be done again by reestablishing the Air Safety Board to investigate accidents, and to make recommendations as a result of its investigations, to prevent accidents, and to make investigations into situations that may be potential crashes. ..." From Pat McCarran came a grim promise: a bill to be filed in January, re-establishing...
...reputation" into towns near growing Army posts, begged for local cooperation in keeping soldiers' amusement clean. The American Social Hygiene Association, culling reports from scores of undercover investigations, estimated that by last week 50,000 trulls were on defense duty. The U. S. Public Health Service, anxious to prevent a rise in venereal rates, offered to help local police, courts, health officers clean up known centres of infection...
...Unlike most other materials of war, explosives should be produced in sparsely-settled areas, can seldom make use of the surplus labor and housing of large urban centres. With an estimated 20 new explosive plants on Government books (five or six already a-building), the U. S. hoped to prevent the dreaded boom town-ghost town cycle. One solution: a Government plan to build 1,000 $2,500 homes near Radford, Va. (site of a new $35,000,000 plant to be built by Hercules Powder Co.) on land leased from farmers. The homes would house workers as long...