Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conceded that his prize formula was outmoded. In a monthly report to the Senate he said: "As the months flow by and the board continues to hold wages ... we become increasingly conscious of the fact that we are asking one segment of our society to do its part to protect all Americans from the ravages of inflation . . . [although] a similar obligation has not been placed as heavily upon . . . some of the other segments of this society...
Durham & Cheadle then developed a zinc alloy for the job (pure zinc soon gets coated with an oxide that interferes with electrolysis), and adapted their discovery to protect condensers, hulls, bulkheads, ballast tanks, etc. The device has already worked well on dozens of ships. So far as condensers, specifically, are concerned, Cheadle figures that his electrolysis eliminator doubles or triples normal life...
...Smoke also is becoming a potent weapon. It is now extensively used as camouflage, sometimes in color, particularly to protect airfields and cities from bombers. Chemists are also experimenting with special types of smoke as a disrupter of tanks and vehicles-by gumming up their machinery...
...Protect us, Lord, and lead...
...protect himself from another Moslem attack from Kansu, Sheng Shih-tsai invited the Russians to set up a Red Army garrison at Kami. A full regiment of Russian troops was stationed there-dressed not in Soviet uniform, but in the Chinese uniform. Russia was permitted to establish a trade agency called Sovintorg which monopolized all Sinkiang export trade. The newly built Turksib Railway exercised enormous economic force. Russians helped to lay out roads, planned irrigation projects, trained a provincial army, staffed provincial hospitals...