Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...natural that legislators should attempt to protect society from the abuses of bad labor leadership. It is also natural that employers--who are sponsoring the three referenda--should attempt to capitalize on a few instances of labor racketeering by using them as a springboard for all-out anti-labor offensive. In their zeal to eliminate certain patent abuses, however, the reformers and the electorate may bring to life a whole new set of labor problems which foment bad union-management relations and prove detrimental to employers, labor, and the entire community...
...infant's blood develops, it sometimes causes the mother's blood to protect itself by forming "antibodies." The antibodies may become strong enough to invade the infant's bloodstream, killing it while still in the womb, or causing it to be born with abnormal blood, severe anemia and jaundice. Some such "erythroblastic" babies can be saved by blood transfusions soon after birth. Others are in such bad shape that nothing can be done...
Soap Opera. The soap industry's "Big Three"-Lever Bros., Procter & Gamble, and Colgate-Palmolive-Peet-were accused by the Federal Trade Commission of unlawful price discrimination against small customers by their rebate system to big buyers. P. & G. admitted that it gave rebates to protect wholesale stocks, whenever it lowered prices. But, said P. & G., it was a practice that had been respected for "many, many years," and once approved...
...haste to protect farmers from this latest evil of free competition, the U.S. planned a quick conference with Canada. It hoped to restrict shipments of Canadian potatoes-and hoped no one would ask how this fitted loud U.S. talk of freer world trade...
Empty beds will be dismantled, he declared, and the new torn paper placed under the cots to protect the basketball floor, will be removed. In addition, trunks, now stored in the basements of several Yard dormitories, will be hauled to the student's new entry when he gets orders to move...