Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radiator's Reed defends his orthodoxy by saying: "Only the Master Plumbers have the knowledge, experience and skill necessary to protect the health of the nation by correct installation." The industry's No. 1 d-t-uer, Sears, Roebuck's General Robert Wood, countered: "Henry Reed has been so damn wrong for the last ten years that it's pitiful." In his attacks on the construction industry, Trustbuster Thurman Arnold has befriended the d-t-u's, broadened their market...
...gentleman farmer," nor are any of the rest of my neighbors who are members of this farmers' protective association. We mostly put in more hours for less pay than do those we hire. We belong to the Associated Farmers so as to be united in the defense of our homes against known Communists and their dupes, who have threatened us and are still threatening us. We need this or a similar organization just as laboring men needed their unions-to protect ourselves against injustice. Not every labor leader is a paragon of justice, any more than every employer...
...German Army, had been idle for six months and on Christmas Eve its commander, Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, visited its westernmost camps on the Channel coast. At Cap Gris Nez, near the long-range guns which sporadically hurl shells into England, he told his men: "The Channel will protect England only so long as it suits us." Führer Hitler was also at the Western Front during the holiday lull, exhorting his troops and talking darkly about mighty efforts to come...
...decade which ended this week saw the failure of that attempt and the unleashing of ruthless war. It saw the Far East's battle of warlords turn into a war for the supremacy of one people. It saw the U. S. turn to a feverish effort to protect itself and its neighbors. It saw, in the Battle of Britain, the life-&-death struggle of the greatest empire the world has ever known...
Since the U. S. became concerned with defense of the hemisphere, it has tried to promote the building of naval and air bases in Uruguay to protect the River Plate-and with it the whole rich east coast of South America. But Argentina's pride and the bugaboo of Yanqui Imperialism have operated against a U. S.-Uruguay deal...