Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meantime Athens heaved a deep sigh of relief. On Sunday the people jammed the churches in thanksgiving, the streets in celebration. Outside British headquarters a crowd of 100,000 yelled for General Scobie, heard him promise to protect Greek liberties. The crowds cheered...
...fire also proved his undoing. The fleet, supple, Cro-Magnons-6 ft. tall, weighing 250 Ibs., hunting with arrows and lances, wearing clothing to protect them in winter and painting pictures on their cave walls-grew vexed when they saw Harg's imitation of their golden rooms. "For the first time in the history of the human race on this planet, men were ready to go to war." The Cro-Magnons wiped out Harg's people, one by one, with bow and arrow, usually without a fight...
...private incentive for speed. Spry old Henry Ford expected to be turning out new cars within two months after he got the signal. Others could not afford to be too far behind. Most important, U.S. industry probably would not be hampered by any complex system of quotas which would protect established companies at the price of freezing out new companies and competition. At the beginning of the year business was highly suspicious that wartime controls would somehow be kept shackled on them in peace. But at year's end this seemed to be more shadow than substance...
Within little more than a month, they drew their first blood. Sent to protect Horn Island, one of the Forty-niners' three squadrons, the Seventh, went up one day to intercept Jap raiders, downed five without loss to themselves...
...forces that for long it was never left in a bomber, was always moved under armed guard. Last week, a Federal Grand Jury in Manhattan charged that Carl L. Norden Inc. (Inventor Norden is no longer associated with the company) took even greater precautions to protect its monopoly on manufacture of the sight. Result: production by other companies of the badly needed sight was blocked. The jury indicted the company, President Theodore H. Barth and Vice-President Ward B. Marvelle, along with Commander John D. Corrigan, U.S.N.R., Robert H. Wells and Corrigan, Osburne & Wells,* their industrial-engineering firm...