Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cooks, No Davis. Every newsman knows that the people are not being given all possible facts about the war which do not involve military security. Some news facts have been suppressed to protect military reputations; more have been withheld or slanted to "protect" U.S. morale. Still others have been withheld because of President Roosevelt's growing love of secrecy. The public at large ascribed press protests at the neglect and exclusion of reporters at Cairo and Teheran to self-interested bellyaching. But Elmer Davis does not work for the U.S. press; he works for the U.S. people. There...
...protect fathers, single men in so-called "essential jobs" will be reconsidered as possible draftees. The lists of 3.6 million 4-Fs will be combed again-just in case there are any almost-healthy men who might, after all, make adequate soldiers. A new five-man medical board will be set up to try to lower the Army's physical standards. But whenever the Army needs young & healthy fathers, they will be called...
...wanted Turkey in the war, so that German forces would be diverted from the Red fronts. For nearly four years Britain (and, after Dec. 7, 1941, the U.S.) did not want Turkey in the war. The Western Allies had a good reason: they lacked the troops, planes, ships to protect Turkey against the Germans, or to make use of her strategic position in a Balkan campaign. In effect, during this welcome neutrality Turkey at war would probably have put a severer drain upon Britain and the U.S. than upon Germany. As late as last February, Churchill told the House...
...Britain and the U.S. did want eventual Turkish aid in the form of land and air bases for use when all was ready. In cold, intelligent self-interest, Turkey held out through most of 1943 for assurances that Britain and the U.S. could 1) protect her against Germany during the war; 2) protect her against Russian claims and dominance after the war. Britain's feckless failure to hold three Aegean islands just off Turkey's shores did not help matters this fall...
Although such foams had been in use for 50 years, Boyd thought he could invent a better one-and did. To manufacture and sell it, he formed National Foam, soon was doing a tidy worldwide business selling foam and equipment to protect oilfields and refineries in Ploesti, Hamburg, Tokyo, Yokohama. Later, aided by his chemistry-smart vice president, George Gordon Urquhart, he turned a second trick: creation from soybeans of a new super-efficient foam, which he called Aer-O-Foam...