Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cross between two bee varieties (Carniolan and Italian), the Squamish bees were brought to the Squamish River Valley from Holland 35 years ago by a Belgian immigrant. Now there are some 50 colonies of about 60,000 bees each. To protect the strain, the British Columbia provincial government has barred the importation of other bees into Squamish Valley. Entomologists fear that because the Squamish is a hybrid, its reluctance to sting may not last. But Feedham believes that by long breeding it has now become a distinct new strain. He looks forward hopefully to a honey-producing bee so gentle...
...Trusteeship Council for dependent territories is guided by a statement of principles recognizing the paramount interests of the governed. The administering power is pledged to develop self-govern ment (but not necessarily independence) in trust territories. These guarantees are only theoretical - the Council as yet has no territories to protect - but the beginning is promising...
...will be an organization which is subjected to principles of justice and of international law and which is designed to recommend the change of any conditions which might impair those principles or the general welfare or friendly relations among nations. It will be an organization which is dedicated to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; to create conditions of stability and well-being and through international cooperation, to promote higher standards of living and cultural and educational cooperation. It will be an organization which binds the members to treat the administration...
...three big wire services he bought. Said Justice Hugo Black (who wrote the majority decision): "The net effect is seriously to limit the opportunity of any new paper to enter these cities . . . and to frustrate the free enterprise system which it was the purpose of the Sherman Act to protect...
...Government cited as an example of price setting that the plastic, when sold in large quantities for Plexiglas, cost 85? a lb.; when sold in small quantities to dentists for dentures, the price was $45 a lb. Defense attorneys answered: the agreements had been made to protect the products and patents, a perfectly legal procedure under U.S. patent laws; at times the operations appeared to assume the aspects of monopoly, but there was no conspiracy...