Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head of Albania's Army, Colonel General Hoxha talked tough in the direction of Greece's Premier Papandreou. Hoxha said flatly that his country would fight to protect itself against Greek claims to southern Albania. As Premier, Hoxha promised private ownership of property, universal suffrage, national mobilization of labor to rebuild the devastated country, punishment of war criminals...
...thunderous greeting to U.S. propaganda posters proclaiming the Four Freedoms, believed that at last the U.S. was giving them a chance to speak freely, live decently. But when the revolution broke, these U.S. well-wishers were disillusioned. U.S. embassies, which seemed to many Central Americans to exist chiefly to protect business interests, were embarrassed by the Four Freedoms propaganda. The State Department declared a "nonintervention" policy which was heavily weighted by Lend-Lease to favor the dictators...
...they were concentrating on rebuilding the island's living quarters, almost all of which were smashed into rubble by the pre-invasion bombardment, and erecting a sea wall to protect port facilities. Seabees had almost finished the wall once when a tropical storm blew up, washed away all their work. Half of Guam's supplies had to be unloaded at portable pontoon piers...
...billion worth of business, more than ever before. Private business fears that, at their present rate of expansion, the co-ops will some day be a serious threat. For this reason anti-co-op organizations, such as Chicago's National Tax Equality Association (formerly the League to Protect Free Enterprise), are plumping for a change in the tax laws. The main N.T.E.A. argument is that expanding co-ops are taking taxable income off the tax rolls. Furthermore, N.T.E.A. contends that many a corporation is turning itself into a co-op merely to dodge taxes. Although Congress plans to delve...
...protect Tokyo from the Superfort raids they expected and feared, the Japs kept sending down medium bombers to pock Saipan's runways and try to keep the B-29s grounded. Last week, in one such thrust, the enemy destroyed one $600,000 Superfortress, damaged two others. But the new Strategic Air Force of the Pacific Ocean Areas, neatly dovetailed with the Navy's surface command, was planning counter-measures to end this nuisance and to rock the Japs back...