Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fort Bragg, N. C., Army horses paraded last week wearing monsterlike headgear. To protect animals that draw field artillery guns and caissons, the Chemical Warfare Service was trying out a new type of equine gas mask. Considering adoption of the masks as regular equipment, the War Department announced that the horses tested had been satisfactorily protected from gas. But with this equipment, there will be no more thunderous galloping into battle, for horses can breathe in the masks, only when moving at a walk...
...feel convinced that we must have adequate naval resources. . . . While in no sense are we of a militaristic mind, we are not yet convinced that propaganda has so far transformed human nature to a point where it is no longer necessary to protect American interests. The enemy is not only within our gates but without and we do not feel the time has come for us to scrap our ships and render ourselves defenseless. . . . Until satisfactory conclusions are reached (at the London Naval Conference) we had rather go forward with equipment to meet any emergency than take a chance that...
...poured thousands of screaming, shouting, swearing prisoners, cowed by the flames, tempted to dash for freedom. Troops, state and federal, augmented the prison guard, pricked the crazy mob into sullen obedience with bayonets. Fire chiefs threatened to let the whole penitentiary burn down unless the warden would guarantee to protect their men. Thousands of Columbus citizens milled around on the fringe of the death-laden spectacle...
...protect the 'brothers' and their chosen partners from such incursions, the fraternity has been forced to resort to the employment of a group of noble individuals whose usefulness, a few short years ago, seemed gone forever. These are 'bouncers' of that simple and primitive anti-alcoholic ardor that cleared the saloon of 'bums' when those gentlemen by raucousness or unseemly act impeded normal intellectual discussion or progress of any worthy cause...
...course the French Government is not discriminating against U. S. medium-priced cars because of any special hostility toward their makers but to protect French motor-makers who are concentrating more and more on this type...