Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urgent because it lies athwart the most practicable route for an enemy move from Dakar in western Africa, thence to some landing point on the eastern hump of South America, and northward to the Canal Zone, Central America, the U.S. itself. Geographically, Trinidad is also in a position to protect-or to dominate-the whole uncertain reach of northern South America. So far it is not a protection but only a position...
...Chairman James Lawrence Fly, onetime TVA general counsel and seasoned New Dealer, talked straight antimonopoly language like that familiar around SEC, TNEC, and the Justice Department. His report rejected the alternatives of Government ownership and rigid utility-style regulation. Said the report: "Competition, given a fair test, will best protect the public interest. That is the American system." And it added: "We doubt that the networks have so little faith in the stability of their own enterprise as is suggested by their insistence that the whole structure of commercial broadcasting will collapse if their relations with outlets are modified along...
Just what deity Rudolf Hess, whose job it is to protect his Führer, referred to was not specified. It could scarcely have been the God of the Orthodox Eastern Church, which was next day to celebrate its Easter, symbolic of rebirth, expressing faith in life, not an occasion of death.* It was probably not one of the deities once thought to be resident on Mt. Olympus, on whose summit German troops had planted the swastika just a few hours earlier-for the Gods of Olympus were fundamental to the ancient civilization which had invented democracy, the very thing...
...Percy and his aides then send wireless orders to the ships at sea. In the case of convoys, they signal the naval escort, which consists in most cases of two destroyers, with here and there a corvette thrown in, trying to protect 20 to 60 vessels in the convoy...
...against Japan for longer. And by last fortnight Joseph Stalin must have feared a day would come when Hitler started screaming again for the Ukraine. Meanwhile there may be juicy pickings in the Middle East. Already there were reports that Russia had demanded the northern provinces of Iran, "to protect the Baku oil fields...