Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wool growers' anxiety was understandable. The wool was imported, mainly from Australia and South Africa, to protect the textile industry against uncertain supplies. Woolen cloth production had spurted; the demand for wool jumped from 650 million lb. in 1941 to over 1 billion lb. in 1943. Since U.S. wool production is only 450 million lb. a year, heavy imports and a comfortable stockpile were necessary. But despite record consumption the stockpile of wool still remains large enough to supply the entire U.S. textile industry for a full year at its anticipated 1944 rate of production...
...plan he had helped work out to defend the U.S. from invasion by the British-after World War I. He told Cleveland's City Club about a scheme "to establish a line about 40 miles long across the isthmus between Lakes Huron and Erie which would protect Detroit" from a possible army "of 300,000 regulars [from] England" which would be "landed in Canada and marched against this country." The Colonel explained that he had worked out the plan with the American General Staff. Added he: "The idea [of the attack] appears fantastic...
...Royal Navy is moving in any force into the western Pacific, the Japs will have to divert naval strength to protect their sea lanes to Rangoon and north Burma...
Complete details seem to be a carefully shrouded secret (possibly to protect original copyrights on music and lyrics) but reliable authorities state that all music, siestas, and workings of the program have emitted from the brains of ASTP men at Harvard who, in most cases have played a part in entertainment in private life...
Shoulder to Shoulder. Before she went to England, Colonel Hobby sat in her office in the Pentagon Building and with an air of patent-unhappiness parried questions about the failure of woman recruiting. Beside her sat the Army Bureau of Public Relations' Major Francis Frazier-"to protect her," he said...