Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vital U.S. industry. It is a small, uneconomic business which assays at less than 1/1000 of the national income. But it has powerful friends-Congressmen and Senators from 23 wool-growing states, who can bleat as loudly as storm-whipped rams while trading support of bills to protect Southern peanut-growers for bills to protect Western sheep-raisers...
...Moslems (34%), Sikhs and Christians in its ranks have worked together with minimum friction. In recent communal riots local police proved ineffective, while the Army's Hindu and Moslem troops obeyed orders, often succeeded in checking disturbances. But a purely Moslem army could not be expected to protect Hindu minorities in Pakistan, nor a Hindu army to protect Moslems in Hindustan. That did not bother Jinnah. Last week he pontificated: "All the armed forces must be divided...
...U.S.C.C. mind its economic law. The first silk shipments sold at an average of $9.79 a pound. But as more silk came into the U.S. the auction price skidded until it hit $4.70 last February. Manufacturers who had been caught in the falling market stopped buying. To protect them, U.S.C.C. pegged the price average at $4.70 and guaranteed to keep it there until the end of the year. With this artificially high floor under silk and with good quality Nylon available at $2.55 a pound, high-priced silk has gone begging. U.S.C.C. has imported some 86,000 bales, sold only...
Commercial Control. A gadget to protect radio listeners from commercials was put on sale by Los Angeles' Gray Development Corp. The gadget plugs in at the radio's electric outlet and has a ten-foot cord leading to two pushbuttons. When the armchair listener hears a singing commercial which he would rather avoid, he presses button No. 1; the radio is cut off for 15 seconds. For a straight spiel, he pushes button No. 2, silencing the radio for 60 seconds. (The time interval can be adjusted.) Sales the first week: 1,000. Price...
...slightly larger than the U.S. force) mobilized against Russian pressure. Turkey is not going to demobilize until it is pretty sure that the Truman Doctrine will be consistent U.S. policy and that the Russians will understand that the U.S. intends, by money, leadership and arms, to protect other nations against Russian aggression. The Leyte was in Istanbul harbor last week not as a threat but as a symbol of that U.S. security policy...