Word: protected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stressed the fact that the United States have not yet freed themselves from any obligations to the Philippines. In time of war it is essential, not only to protect those islands, but to keep trade routes open...
...police or challenge the world. He said that the bill itself would contain a "definite statement of what the fundamental naval policy of this country is," proceeded to read it. The bill defined the fundamental naval policy of the U. S. to be maintaining a Navy adequate to afford "protection to the coastline in both oceans at one and the same time; to protect the Panama Canal, Alaska, Hawaii and our insular possessions; . . . to guarantee our national security, but not aggression; . . . provide a defense that will keep any potential enemy away from our shores...
Because the Empire State Building is struck so frequently, researchers of General Electric Co., looking for light on lightning (to help them protect transmission lines) began to photograph it from another building. The research was under the direction of Karl Boyer McEachron, 48, G. E.'s ace lightning researcher, who has been designing experimental apparatus Pittsfield for 16 years, has produced artificial bolts of 10,000,000 volts, others of 250,000 amperes (amperage is the amount of current, voltage the pressure which drives it). Last week Engineer McEachron reported the results of three summers of Empire State Building...
...expense of small consumers. Therefore, in setting up minima, the Commission arbitrarily raised the price of railroad coal to a level nearer that for small consumers. The A. A. R. protested through John Carson, consumers' counsel, whose job was specially created by the Guffey-Vinson Act to protect the consumers' interests. But the B. C. C. refused to reconsider its action. The A. A. R.'s success in court last week led many another coal buyer to bring similar petitions and it looked as if the whole minimum price schedule would have to be shelved. Said John...
...Chinese may not be excluded from this country as they were under the exclusion act prior to the World War, 4 China must grant the great powers extraterritorial rights in her country, 5 the Chinese Government must keep trade routes open between the coast and the interior and protect foreign business concerns using those routes from bandit attacks...