Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solution for Ottawa was: extend Canada's fishing rights clear out through the continental shelf, and thus bring Quero under Canadian jurisdiction. A simpler solution: patrol the Bank to protect the rights of Canadian fishermen. Last week the R.C.M.P. "cruiser" French was out belatedly on just such an assignment...
...Expediter Wyatt had done little that seemed likely to relieve their supply worries, said the builders, he had done nothing at all to relieve their worries over rising costs. To protect themselves against contract squeezes (as well as to make more profit), builders almost unanimously clamored for a lifting of the $10,000 lid on veterans' housing. (Some had even gone on what amounted to a sit-down strike for a free market; new-building "starts" began to fall off in June...
...court. It looked as though Captain Garsson was more a victim of his own tactlessness than of cowardice. But he himself complained last week that his Army career had been uncomfortably cushioned. Reason: his superiors seemed to have orders from above to "take care of Garsson and protect...
Pennywise. In Portland, Ore., sidewalk orator Phillip Baker demanded that police protect his right of free speech, complained that every time he opened his mouth a listening drunk tossed in a penny...
Assuming that the power source is uranium or plutonium, such an engine would require: 1) a chain-reacting pile of several tons (which would provide energy in the form of heat); 2) boilers and other equipment for converting the pile's heat into steam; 3) massive shields to protect crews from the pile's deadly radiation; 4) a conventional turbine...