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Word: protecting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the President swung with his other hand. Reading emphatically from a prepared statement, he blamed Congress for taking "no effective action on the proposals which I have submitted to curb high prices and to protect the average American citizen against the certain prospect of increased living costs." Said the President: "Our people will not be satisfied with the feeble compromises that apparently are being concocted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Wide of the Mark | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Most of the farming is collectivized, because socialist Zionists wanted to work the land as intensively as possible, with Jewish labor. The collectives have another advantage: many are stockaded forts, built to protect pioneer settlers from Arab attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Watchman | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Since Hiroshima, the U.S.'s fear for the safety of the Panama Canal has trebled and quadrupled. At the order of Congress, the Canal Zone's governor has prepared a six-volume report on how to protect the vital Atlantic-Pacific short cut from atomic bombs. Army Secretary Kenneth Royall, on the hunt for alternate canal routes, last winter flew all over the country between Colombia and the Tehuantepec Isthmus in Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Another Ditch? | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Teacher Fajon could lecture Boss Thorez because Thorez, unlike Tito, had no army, no secret police that would protect him in defiance of the Cominform. Fajon, permanent representative of the French party on the Cominform, was just back from Bucharest. He bore a letter from Cominform Boss Andrei Zhdanov to Thorez. The Cominform message rebuked Thorez secretly for the same view of nationalism which had drawn the public thunderbolt of Cominform anathema to Tito's head. Zhdanov said that Thorez had not stuck close enough "to the basic and permanent principles of proletarian internationalism." As was clear from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Why the Boss Bowed His Head | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...just 13 years ago that the fatcat Republican Los Angeles Times moved into a handsome new six-story building. To protect the inlaid city-room floor, reporters were forbidden to smoke. Last week, directly behind this modern plant, another building was nearing completion -a ten-story white shaft with sea-green windows and an affluent look. Times reporters, who long ago broke down the no-smoking rule, were under fresh orders from the management: anybody who entered the new building would be fired on the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Peppo, Zippo & Zoomo | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

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