Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The new Deutschland and her sisters have an extraordinary beam of 118 ft.-about 25 ft. wider than the biggest liners afloat. This indicates enormous armor protection and underwater bulkheading. The German ships mount eight 15-inch guns to the new British ships' ten 14-inchers. Even if they...
The British War Office last week grimly waited for the arrival of a delegation of determined Scots. The Highland Association was rallying Scottish members of Parliament to protest a recent War Office order: "No more kilts will be issued until the war is over." For almost two centuries Scotsmen have...
Any invention in order to be of use to the public must be developed, perfected, and put on the market at a reasonable price. But no sound firm is going to spend money on research and perfection of, say, a new drug, unless it has the protection of a patent...
"The Vatican and the Quirinal, divided by the Tiber River, are linked together by peace and by a common religion of their fathers and ancestors. The Tiber waves have overthrown and sunk the unhappy past so that on the Tiber shores olive branches are now blossoming out. Today the hand...
Caught in the old confidence game was superstitious Cinemactress Lupe Velez. She let a gypsy woman persuade her to tie two $1,000 bills and $500 in assorted currency in a piece of red silk to be prayed over as protection against her enemies, got the silk back wrapped around...