Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark, grey-green eyes turn icy. Show him-they seem to say-the transports to move armies, more transports to replace the certain losses and keep the invaders supplied, warships to protect the transports. Show him the million-&-one items and preparations necessary for invasion...
...embittered woman's imagination-until he was convicted of obstructing justice. Pompous, handshaking Mayor Richard W. Reading professed that all was civic virtue-until he was found guilty of graft. And one of the first men Judge Ferguson indicted in the handbook racket was a policeman assigned to "protect...
...rationed, and Lend-Lease will get a share of those. Only hope for trucks is to make their present equipment last. Said ODT's Joe Eastman last week: "In some way and somehow, we must keep these vehicles in service for essential purposes for the duration . . . and protect and preserve the rubber tires on hand, which constitute the most precious stockpile that our country possesses...
...protect what remains, the museum has boarded up its three big domes and the large outside windows, will replace some of the skylights with wood and put chicken wire under the rest. Led by Fireman Thomas Hughes, a retired New York Battalion Chief, 125 museum attendants practice regularly, dashing about the halls with twelve baby-buggy-like fire trucks. The museum has its drills so pat that public and staff can clear out in three minutes...
Tactician Mahan had taught that a nation with a good navy was a nation able to protect its trade routes. A nation with protected trade routes was a prosperous nation, able to support a good navy. The one thesis upheld the other in a solid arch. But now the flat-topped, hound-fast carrier had suddenly become sea power's capital ship. Unregenerate airmen, in the hearing of brooding seadogs, said the carrier outmoded the battleship. Air-power partisans supported them...