Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protect Which Jobs? About 4,500,000 workers-one in 14-depend on foreign trade for a living. Since foreigners must sell to the U.S. in order to buy from the U.S., it follows, said Ike, that "the defeat of the trade agreements program would destroy far more jobs . . . than it could possibly ever preserve." But the President was not willing to rest his argument on self-interest. "It may be trite to say that trade is a two-way street, but is it trite to say that cooperative security is a two-way street? By no means. Allies...
...Underneath all such efforts," said Clayton, "is an understandable human impulse to choke off competition, and protect prices and profits. Nevertheless, such attempts should be understood for what they are, and defeated. The U.S. has always prospered by using the cheapest available fuels." In the future, such fuel will be at a premium, as consumption keeps rising. "We should never forget that the U.S. has only about 20% of the proven oil reserves of the world, whereas we are consuming over half of the present production of oil in the world...
...Roots of American Communism (TIME, March 18, 1957), which argued that the party was to some extent a native heresy grafted onto the root stock of American radicalism, but it is valuable as a sober piece of accountancy by an official whose job, among others, is to help protect federal property -including the Constitution...
...Britain, France, Thailand, the Philippines, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. Cambodia, Laos and South Viet Nam are not members, but SEATO is pledged to protect them against aggression...
...against short attacks of extreme heat. It is used in 20 types of missiles, sometimes in the nose cones, sometimes in other hot spots such as the nozzles of rocket motors. The Thompson company says that a laminated layer of Astro-lite two-tenths of an inch thick can protect the nose of an IRBM. For an ICBM, which enters the atmosphere much faster, four inches may be needed. This thickness weighs, says Thompson, only one-fifteenth as much as a heat-resistant metal used for the same...