Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly 50 powerful beams stabbed the darkness. Then more & more, until some cones of light were formed by as many as 40 searchlights, catching and holding bombers at their apex. Simultaneously a great curtain of light was flung out horizontally to dazzle raiders, protect factories and military works...
...conventions. Lammot du Pont declared: "The point that irks me most is the idea of not being allowed to pay extra compensation for more and better work. A bonus does not affect prices, it reduces the cost." The Chamber also fiercely debated the open shop before demanding legislation to protect...
Success in any of these attacks would do two things which Hitler has always felt it necessary to do: they would protect his rear and divide his enemies. Before he turns his full attention to Russia, he might think it wise to try to eliminate the growing threat from the British Isles. He might think it not only wise but necessary to intercept the flow of goods from the growing arsenal...
...three weeks in India, and his account of them, had only in creased his stature in the world's eye. He stressed the fact that India's political groups must agree before self-government could honorably be given, that Britain could not ignore its pledges to protect the Indian minorities. He offered to take all the blame for the failure of his mission, if that would help to unite India for her own defense. And he gave an eloquent argument for that unity. Said Sir Stafford: "The basic philosophy of the Japanese forces, as of their German counterparts...
...Scapa Flow, and the U.S. and Britain, in Iceland, have naval bases on the fringes of the battle area. In Norway on the Atlantic, at Kiel and Helgoland on the North Sea approaches, the Nazis have a great advantage: an inner line of both naval and air bases to protect German supply routes and to launch attacks on the outer Allied routes. The Germans also have enough naval power at hand to give the Allies serious contest: the mighty Tirpitz, which apparently escaped unharmed from a recent torpedo-plane attack; the smaller Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, several cruisers and at least...