Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctrine that held that the Government should be something like a modern, bureaucratic Great White Father to all its peoples. Government was expected not only to protect the helpless, but also to make full employment, regulate business and let labor run on a minimum of regulation. It was a doctrine that meant guaranteed security-for the farmer and the worker, and for the old and the sick. In 1948, the U.S. wanted a man who believed in that doctrine. It rejected the party-the Republican Party-which it suspected of wanting to change...
Over the whole program hangs the shadow of military security. Can Pitzer protect his men from the threat of attack (without hearing or recourse) on charges of disloyalty?* Unless he can reassure his colleagues on such points, AEC may have to get along with the skim milk of U.S. scientific talent...
...Other Side of Profits. "In what way?" shot back Wilson. "It's rotten business. It only makes 1.2% net." G.E.'s rate of profit on civilian goods-7.2% on $1.3 billion in sales-was not enough, said Wilson, to pay for expansion and to protect G.E. against a sudden sales slump...
...which still holds a minority interest. There were strings tied to Beaunit's deal: it may not turn the two companies' rayon yarn into any products made by Beaunit (last year Beaunit made a net profit of 14.4% on $41 million in sales). Also to protect present customers of North American and Bemberg, OAP insisted that the companies continue to supply the customers with yarn for the next five years...
Freddie's job is comparatively simple, for a ferret. His bosses tie a length of fishing line to his collar; to the fishing line they attach another length of electrical wiring. Then, while Freddie is held at one end of a piece of pipe designed to protect wires, another man, with a dead rabbit and an air compressor, goes to the other...