Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jacques Leclerc is a nom de guerre. His real name is still a secret (to protect his family from the Nazis). Quick-tempered, a stickler for efficiency, the General has no patience with fumbling aides. Last week, on the road to Paris, his nerves jumped raggedly.. At a press conference he parried all questions with caustic comments...
...order meant little actual relief for the U.S. The restrictions had been a WPB effort to prevent rationing by making shoes less attractive. In lifting the restrictions, WPB's motive is to protect dealers by giving them fresh merchandise so they will not be caught with shelves full of drab wartime shoes when rationing ends...
Hollywood moved to protect its celluloid epics from the competition of epic news from Europe. Reported Variety last week: producers now add a clause to all contracts, permitting them to cancel the premiere of any super-picture, if peace breaks out in Europe as the picture is about to have a razzle-dazzle opening...
...protect our country...
...Fund is a plan to stabilize the ratio be tween the currencies of 44 nations (Denmark was not assigned a quota), in an endeavor to protect the 1,500,000,000 people of those nations against slumps caused by a temporary shortage of foreign exchange. The Bank would make available, under most careful safeguards, a great pool of money for the reconstruction or physical improvement of war-damaged or backward areas. For detailed de scription of the two proposed institutions, see below...