Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time & again since the defense program got under way, Washington has promised to protect the rights of Labor. The National Defense Advisory Commission set forth a fixed policy in the letting of contracts: "All work carried on as part of the defense program should comply with Federal statutory provisions affecting labor. . . ." The War & Navy Departments agreed, and Labor's great friend Franklin Roosevelt advised manufacturers not to forget...
...towns lie. But the high bank in each case is on the west so that it presents no obstacle to an invasion from that direction. It offers an actual advantage, for when troops reach the bluff at any point their artillery can command the far bank and protect their crossing...
Stalin's Problem. Soviet Russia has two objectives in the Balkans. One is to protect herself from German invasion. If she could advance her frontier from the Pruth to the summit of the Carpathians she could deprive Germany of one jumping-off place into the Ukraine. Since the danger would remain of this line being outflanked by a German advance southeastward from Poland, the risk of war with Germany in order to seize the Carpathians is probably not worth it in Joseph Stalin's calculating mind...
...credit to the Marine Corps, which does indeed garrison Navy bases. But outlying naval bases are usually supported by Army posts. The Army's 23,000 men in Hawaii are not there to protect pineapples from mealy bugs...
...next decreed a complete embargo on shipments of scrap iron and steel to Japan. In the midst of these moves, whose only distinction was that they were coming more rapidly than in the past, U. S. citizens read that Japan, Germany, Italy had signed a ten-year pact to protect the "new order" in Europe and Asia, to pledge mutual assistance in case another power (i.e., the U. S.) became involved in the European or Asiatic...