Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like-minded Mr. Knudsen recently got President Roosevelt to agree in principle to a bill to permit manufacturers to amortize the cost of Defense plants within five years which would give them reasonable protection. Then the President had qualms. Warned that many a Congressman would oppose outright concessions to Business...
The preventive value of bismuth for syphilis was made clear in the 1920s by Dr. M. E. Sonnenberg of Poland, who gave bismuth injections to prostitutes for five years, obtained 95% protection. For the past ten years, fierce Dr. Paul John Hanzlik and his co-workers at Stanford University have...
Eire stubbornly stuck to its pitifully few guns last week, resolutely maintained its determination to defend itself from British protection as well as Nazi invasion. Irish politicos had reached the point of admitting fear of assault from the Continent. Declared Minister for Supplies Sean Lemass: "We must prepare for the...
Mindful of historic precedent, old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, Chief of State, showed no eagerness last week to see German troops withdrawn once more from Paris. Instead, he worked overtime at Vichy, provisional capital of unoccupied France, to persuade the German-French Armistice Commission to fulfill its promise...
Below the southern boundaries of Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador the problems of the U. S. increase in direct proportion to the distance from Washington. Dominated by the ABC republics (Argentina, Brazil, Chile), this area lies beyond the zone of U. S. military and naval effectiveness, is consequently less willing to...