Word: protected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constitutive individuals. And to that of the development of Science and of the influence of its applications to our habits of life and of thought. They would endeavor to discover how modern civilization could mold itself to man without crushing any of his essential qualities. Their silent meditation would protect the inhabitants of the new city from the mechanical inventions which are dangerous for their body or their mind, from the adulteration of thought as well as food, from the whims of the specialists in education, nutrition, morals, sociology, etc., from all progress inspired, not by the needs...
...other words, cotton control had put farmers into tobacco, and tobacco control had put them into peanuts, and peanut control had put them into potatoes. Potato Control was adopted as an AAA evolution to protect about 30,000 farmers who make their main living out of potatoes and do not want their crop invaded by other farmers whose land has been rendered idle by the other AAA controls. To give them that protection Mr. Hutson will have to regulate half again as many farmers as raise cotton, twice as many as raise wheat, and he will have to detect...
...more respects. Utility executives talked darkly of "impairment" of assets, "confiscation" of property. On the New York Stock Exchange utility shares dropped one to four points. Calling the law "purely political," President James Francis Fogarty of conservative North American Co. threatened to take to the courts to protect his company's assets against "attempts to destroy them through punitive legislation." But most utilities were too confused last week to say precisely what they would do and when and how. Some talked of forcing the Government to take the initiative by deliberately refusing to obey the provisions of the act. Most...
...British Cabinet members went into session at No. 10 Downing Street the issue before British public opinion was whether to protect a savage and backward but innocent African people against being singed by the torch of civilization in Eternal Rome's hand, but the issue before the Cabinet was primarily how to protect British investments in the Sudan and along the Blue Nile which is fed from Tana, Ethiopia's great lake. Tana is so placed among rocky crags that a little earnest dynamiting would divert its precious waters from the Blue Nile toward Ethiopian plains...
...Lord, protect us from our friends," cried Dr. Schacht...