Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arranged for my boy to have boxing lessons, not because I wanted him to be a prize fighter, but so that he would be able to protect himself...
...buying increases, R. R. C. can still protect itself. When the price stays above the legal 20? for a reasonable period (two or three weeks) R. R. C. may invoke its contract with the Dutch-British rubber cartel, International Rubber Regulations Committee, which controls 97% of the world supply. I. R. R. C. will then be obliged to boost its quotas to the U. S., send the price down to where R. R. C. can enter the market again. This week, unscared R. R. C. announced that it would buy another 180,000 tons of rubber next year...
...Vatican in return agreed to appoint only bishops acceptable to Portugal, to regulate missionary activities in the Portuguese colonies, added that "the Church . . . does not propose to take over or even to protect any function that belongs to Caesar, whoever he may be." New Problems. Both for the Catholic Church and for the democracies the continuation of this policy, if fascism makes good its hold on Europe, promised to raise new difficulties. To a Catholic-Fascist-Latin bloc-such as might eventually be formed by Italy, Spain, Petain's France and Portugal-the Church could...
...Duell, Sloan & Pearce ($2.50). In this gently tragic idyl of the Arizona irrigation country Amanda loves her valley orchards, Stephen loves his mesa-browsing goats, Amanda and Stephen love each other. Drought sears the pasture lands, threatens to dehydrate the romance: valley grasses can save the starving goats or protect the orchards from floods. Stephen with his goats conquers the trees in Amanda's heart. But a flash flood drowns Stephen, leaves unwed Amanda to raise figs, peaches and Stephen's posthumous baby. Author Gillmor's tale has some of the fresh clarity of desert...
...life to combat the forces which imperil civilization today"). Caught between his instinct to oppose John Lewis and his aversion to any politically uncertain controversy. A. F. of L.'s William Green hesitated, finally came out against compulsory training until it becomes "necessary to defend, protect and preserve America...