Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conference of 115 museums from all over the country to decide how best to protect works of art in an "emergency," opens at the Fogg Art Museum this afternoon with a meeting dealing with the properties and deterioration of stone ceramics, and glass...
City officials in anxious conference with a Negro minister finally decided to call the whole thing off before Detroit had a full-dress race war. Said Police Commissioner Frank Eamans hopelessly: "There is no use moving these people in if you need an army to protect them...
...Navy and its air service can harass Japanese shipping and outposts by surface, submarine and aircraft-carrier raids, constantly striking and then retiring to the main U.S. base in Pearl Harbor. Such raids cannot win the war. They cannot even protect U.S. shipping routes to the Allied forces in Australia and the Middle East, or supply lines to Russia, India and China...
...German fleet in the Atlantic, the possibility of Japanese invasion of Alaska and British Columbia demanded second thoughts on basic war strategy. The possible shelling of Atlantic coastal towns would be bad enough, but Canadians, remembering Pearl Harbor, thought also of Dutch Harbor. If the Japanese hoped to protect themselves from the wrath to come, they would have to neutralize Alaska, from which the Aleutian Islands stretch west and south toward Russian air bases, a short bomber hop from Tokyo...
...American Aluminum Co., plane production was stopped or retarded in many plants. This particular plant simply wouldn't expand to meet the needs of the government. Even now the new Reynolds Co. isn't granted the same advantages as its grasping rival. Jones has tried hard to protect this semi-monopoly, but at the possible expense of an undefended America...