Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just in case. To 17,227 New York City policemen and 150 policewomen went a special, 21-page order, canceling all vacations and days off. Hotel managers stripped for action. Lobbies were cleared of furniture, rugs and potted plants. The bottoms of paper laundry bags were clipped, to prevent their use as water bombs...
...started new investi' gations into the killing last July 11 of eight Negro convicts at the Glynn County highway camp (TIME, July 28). A special grand jury had previously exonerated Warden H. G. Worth and the four guards who shot them. Meanwhile, the state acted to prevent a similar massacre; in Charlton County, it abolished its last remaining highway camp. ¶ In North Carolina, seven white men exonerated by a grand jury last Aug. 5 for an attempt to lynch Godwin ("Buddy") Bush, even though one of the men had confessed, were rearrested. Under an obscure, 54-year...
...maybe even gunplay-were due in Chicago any minute. Across the page from that story, the Herald told all about "two good policemen who are on trial for trying to solve [a] murder." This kind of news, said a front-page editorial, was run "to help Mayor Kennelly prevent the return of gangster rule in this city." Capone's mob might or might not be coming back, but there was no doubt that an able mob of Hearstlings had moved in on the Her old-American...
...least six months (only those films which were imported after the tax was announced are subject to it). Another was that Britain's tax, although set upas an import duty, seemed in effect an income tax-and therefore in violation of an Anglo-American agreement designed to prevent double taxation on incomes. Hollywood felt that perhaps Britain could not make the tax stick...
...their slowest competitors. The railroads justify it by saying that to speed them up would congest freight yards, disrupt passenger service and create locomotive shortages (by increasing the number of short, fast trains). But the U.S. Government, in an antitrust suit, charged that the slowdown was primarily to prevent rate cuts by slower lines trying to compete with faster ones...