Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This American version of the "rotten borough" is not entirely a racial issue. When Dies of Texas slinks into Congress on 12,000 votes, and Rankin of Mississippi warms his seat at the pleasure of a meagre 4,000 citizens, the problem is no longer confined to the Negro's...
Pointing out that no provisions for the protection of institutions have been or are likely to be made by the Cambridge authorities, Walton reminded the students that in time of air raids "Harvard will have to take care of itself."
He said that Argentina and Chile were being used by Axis agents "as a base for hostile activities against their neighbors." Axis espionage had resulted in the sinking of neighbors' ships. Mr. Welles could not believe that this would go on much longer, that Argentina and Chile would permit...
Two years had passed since the R.A.F.'s overstrained pilot fighters broke the Luftwaffe's back (on Sept. 15, 1940 they downed 185 German planes) and the first Battle of Britain waned. The Luftwaffe was a weapon designed as the Army's air arm, not primarily for...
The quick-zooming, vulnerable Jap Zero* fighter is a triumph for the world's greatest adapters. How the underestimated little single-motored plane could get away with such power and maneuverability was a mystery for several weeks after Pearl Harbor. U.S. aviators soon found part of the answer (and...