Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prevent more bungling and shortsightedness, the committee recommended a good dose of efficiency for the armed forces and the Government. Specifically, it called for: a national stockpile of vital raw materials, acquisition of strategic overseas bases now being abandoned, an expanded, more efficient intelligence agency, an up-to-date plan for the immediate mobilization of U.S. industry...
...seamen's walkout at Sasebo halted the sailing of five merchant ships which were to bring repatriates from the Ryukyu Islands and Manchuria, MacArthur decided it was time for plain speaking. He directed the Japanese Government to man and operate the ships and take necessary steps to prevent further walkouts. The Government was to carry out these orders "without the use of police force"; if this was impossible, occupation forces would step...
...Russia. . . . Anybody who knows Dr. Newton or anybody who knows what the Baptist denomination stands for is not going to think that the Southern Convention President is 'selling Communism.' Nothing has been changed from the Baptist idea of freedom. . . . But there is nothing in that idea to prevent its men from believing, however wide-eyed and innocently, the best of another fellow. The only trouble is that in these power political days it can't safely be done, though Dr. Newton has done...
...threat carried more moral force than military might. A Soviet veto could prevent punitive action by U.N. But the tone of the U.S. protest was proof of U.S. determination to take a stand in eastern Europe. If U.N. faltered, the U.S. would need to provide its own sanctions. Short of force the U.S., which shipped Yugoslavia $32,000,000 in wartime Lend-Lease, could hold up its share of the $100,000,000 in UNRRA supplies still undelivered to the Yugoslavs...
Examinations may prevent the attendance of several prospective gridders who are in College for the summer session; however, the heaviest turnout since 1942 is expected for the first day's workout...