Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To the north, the remnants of an enemy expeditionary force of 100,000 slogged their way through the clinging goo of winter-flooded rice paddy fields as fast as heavy legs could take them. But they had a long way to go before they could reach the protection of their...
For his own privy information and protection, Hitler was said to be forming a secret service even more mysterious than the most arcane Gestapo circles.
All was not lost, however, said Correspondent Cole: "Now that American commerce, American airways and American protection in West Africa are destined to play a great part in this war, the British colonial populations are anxious and clamoring to know more about the Star-Spangled Banner."
In San Francisco, citizens got a few sardonic laughs from some gagster's "Plan of Air-Raid Protection and Civilian Defense." The "plan," an ironic salute to bumbling Mayor Angelo Rossi, was "deduced from analysis of activity and progress to date." Excerpts:
Civilian Defense units were still largely unorganized. Last fortnight, when unidentified planes were reported 80 miles off the Coast, the city had its seventh blackout. Seven sirens, installed after long delay, were drowned out by traffic noises. (Twenty more were ordered at once.) During the blackout, Mayor Rossi was the...