Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ridge cuts down the peninsula, its fog-hidden peaks rising at times to a height of 2,000 ft. Here the Japs dug in, under rock ledges and beside boulders, their machine guns cleverly camouflaged, their snipers posted at angles to protect the machine gunners. Jap strategy is plain: to die, but to take as many Americans with them as possible...
...they had been inordinately greedy. Commented PAB Chairman Maurice Karker: high productiveness of labor, fine supervision, improved flow of raw materials, inexperience with costs and materials make many a company an unwitting profiteer. Only 10% objected to PAB's excisions. In some cases companies had bid high to protect them selves from unknown costs on unfamiliar products. In many cases the growing volume of orders and the experience gained in manufacture enabled companies to make huge unforeseen savings. In a few cases the contract price was figured on the costs of manufacturing a given weapon in Federal arsenals...
...into raising old tariffs or adding new ones. He should not insist on exhausting the last high-cost mine before letting in a ton of foreign ore. Often he may find ways in which tariffs can be lowered for the profit of the very groups they are supposed to protect. But most of all he must be conscious of his consumer interest in low prices and variety of choice and must seek advocates -perhaps the storekeepers-to argue his political case...
...protect himself against assault, he acquired a bodyguard, wore a bulletproof vest and an automatic. He got out just in time. He is somewhat touchy about the Pacific war, thinks that the U.S. is doing far too little in that theater, and has said...
...protect castaways in shark-infested seas, the Navy announced a shark-repellent substance. A secret concoction which sharks abhor, it was developed by the Office of Scientific Research & Development in cooperation with Marine Studies, Inc., was tested in waters off Florida and Ecuador...