Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...luxury may be another man's necessity. In the North, rifles are used mainly for sport ; but in the West and South, rifles are a tool used to kill rabbits and deer which ruin crops. Window screens, unneeded in some places (New York City), are vitally necessary to protect Southerners from malaria-carrying mosquitoes. Long ago WPB was forced to dole out more ammunition for civilian rifles...
...have a new radio hero. Chick Carter, the boy detective, is making life pretty difficult for The Rattler, a man with a foreign accent who through sabotage, blackmail, robbery and murder is trying to wreck the vital war industries of Midvale. Can Chick and his companions help Major Pennington protect his new war invention from The Rattler? (Answers given Mondays through Fridays, 5:30 to 5:45 p.m. E.W.T. over WOR-Mutual...
Following the "conditional peace" would come a transition period, when Axis war leaders would be punished, reparations and debts settled, final boundaries determined. Small nations would form federations; disarmament would be completed. A permanent world institution would be set up to administer international law, protect minorities, reduce world-trade barriers and guard the freedom...
...Canadian sailors are now equipped with a new life jacket which covers the lower part of the trunk and gives its wearer better protection against burns and concussion injuries from exploding shells and depth charges in the water. Stowed in the jacket are several new gadgets to aid rescue: a yellow cap (to make its wearer more conspicuous), an electric lamp, a length of rope, a pair of stout loops for rescuers to grab. Another new item of Canadian lifeboat equipment is a supply of heavy socks impregnated with vaseline, to protect sailors from "immersion foot," a circulatory disorder that...
When he lies low, the Italian bases he is supposed to protect are open to heavier & heavier bombing. The Luftwaffe in the Mediterranean is in a closing trap...