Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greatest REA triumph was the ramshackle old cow barn with its dirt floor. To protect the 70 cows from flies there were electrically-charged copper screens. When a fly tried to get through the ½in. openings, there was a little flash, a ping -and the dead fly fell into a metal trough at the bottom of the window. Each cow had its individual drinking fountain, which spouted water when nuzzled. Cows were cooled by electric fans, clipped by electric razors, milked by electric machines. The hay they ate was hoisted into the trough by electric motors. The milk they...
...longer can protect our families with an army. Our libraries, our museums and every one of the institutions we value most are laid bare to bombardments...
...Aviation has brought revolutionary changes to a world already staggering with changes. It is our responsibility to make sure in so doing we don't destroy the very things which we wish to protect...
...British Post Office joined the anti-gas campaign when little, red mail vans began loading the first of 20,000,000 free booklets on how to protect homes from gas and air raids...
This week the troops of Nanking, shooing the Kwangsi troops out of the way, marched into Canton, took it over in the name of the Nationalist Government. The collapse of the great Southwest rebellion was highly discouraging to Japanese, who landed marines near Canton "to protect Japanese lives and property...