Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was still plenty of evidence for the direct Channel attack. Big guns were not rolled up to Boulogne and other points to pock the barren cliffs of Kent; they were probably there to protect a landing. The Luftwaffe was very definitely still trying to knock out coastal airports to push back fighter resistance...
...Army along the Bessarabian frontier. Premier Molotov sent an outraged note to Bucharest. The Rumanian Army was withdrawn from the Prut River to the Siret. This gesture only brought forth a stiffer note from Comrade Molotov. It looked very much as if Russia were about to protect herself by moving farther into...
Signing the Investment Company Act and Investment Advisers Act which will put investment trusts and counselors under SEC supervision, Candidate Roosevelt called the bill to witness "this Administration's vigorous program . . . to protect the investor." Sure that "we have come a long way from the bleak days of 1929." the President voiced a pious hope: "It is a source of satisfaction that businessmen have at last come to recognize that it is this Administration's purpose to aid the honest businessman...
...Miraculous Victory of Emperor Ulrich. An immaculate ruler and spiritual descendant of Parsifal, Emperor Ulrich liberated France by crushing her in a war. He made Brittany the centre of a Celtic group of provinces, including her "racial sister," Ireland. Alsace-Lorraine, Champagne and Burgundy he placed "directly under the protection of the Holy (German) Empire." Italy was assigned to "protect and guide" the provinces of southeast France. The Basques and Catalans on both sides of the Pyrenees were united and made independent. A "Great United Kingdom of The Netherlands" encompassed Flanders and the northern French provinces. "Peace and the boundless...
...into the fertile Richelieu Valley and south toward Lake Champlain. Farther upstrean lies Montreal, Canada's metropolis and No. i seaport. To launch a land thrust to the south an invader would have to hold the Montreal-Quebec line as well as Nova Scotia and Newfoundland to protect his supply line...