Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gentleman who wanted to know what was wrong with attending Mr. Cramer's tutoring school, and whether, in fact, Mr. Cramer should not be encouraged, in view of his ultra-rapid success in teaching University courses, and whether the various professors should not make exams such as to prevent this sort of study, I would like to put in a few words in condemnation of Mr. Cramer...
There are just enough weak spots in the program, and inexperienced people in the cast, to prevent Make Mine Manhattan from being a wow. The cast as a whole is not terribly adroit, but it has the conceivably greater virtue of being enormously likable...
Apart from its bad timing, the new setup made some sense. Its purpose was to 1) prevent the Marshall Plan nations from spending U.S. dollars on nonessential or luxury items; 2) keep tabs on everything going to the Soviet Union or its satellites. But the export wall was full of loopholes. It would still be possible, as in war years, to ship to a Latin American middleman, who could transship to one of the affected countries...
Exporters, as expected, were dead set against the controls. They claimed that 1) most European nations already had strict controls to prevent their dollars from being squandered, 2) the red tape would slow up European recovery by delaying the shipment of needed goods. But the Administration hinted that it may soon put still other nations under export license...
...Senator McCarthy: How about that 18% profit? Well, retorted Ginsberg, what about it? He considered his profit no more than fair for delivering scarce goods. Snapped Ginsberg: "I want to say, sir, Ginsberg is as proud as McCarthy. I don't believe you can possibly pass legislation to prevent me, and honest men like me, from making a fair profit. Only in Russia could that be done...