Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since May the monsoon had been India's best shield against the Japs. With that protection gone until another May, the question was whether enemy raids foretold a major Jap offensive. Out to explore possibilities went U.S. Brigadier General Clayton L. Bissell, chief of the 10th Air Force command...
Homo Frustratus. In Denver, Cyclist Francis Sargent, nipped by a dog, fired his revolver, slightly wounding the dog and his own ankle, was arrested for cruelty to animals, given a suspended fine, stripped of his commission as volunteer officer of the State Bureau of Child and Animal Protection. In Los...
When chunky, fast-talking Dr. Neuwirth reached Iran last May to become medical adviser to the Government, swarms of Polish refugees from Russia were pouring into the country-unwashed, lousy, probably infected with typhus. Iranians feared an epidemic. At Teheran's Pasteur Institute, Dr. Neuwirth taught Iranian technicians to...
From then on Russia found herself in an advantageous position, which finally paid off in her German pact of '39. She could jockey herself between Germany's desire for protection in her rear, and England and France's need for an ally to the east of the Nazis. For a...
War had not doused duckhunting yet. Shotgun shells weren't short or rationed (despite WPB freezing of all 12-gauge shells for aerial-gunnery training, war-plant protection and riot squads). Not all coastal marshes and inland waters were restricted. And most comforting of all, the Government is counting...