Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only be deduced (with appropriate amplifications) from the job already done. In helping to make the Tunisian victory possible, Allied naval forces under Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham had a double job to do. They had to cut the Axis supply line to Tunisia and protect the Allies' line...
...opening the Mediterranean was only half done when the Allies took all of the African coast. It can be completed only by clearing the islands which dominate the channel. To help do that, Admiral Cunningham must again protect the shipping which transports landing forces, and at the same time engage the enemy. The Italian enemy has run away more often than he has fought, but the fact remains that the Italian fleet has usually been locally superior as far as weight is concerned. Admiral Cunningham's great contribution has been the intimidation and whittling down of that weight...
...several neutral sources in Europe came a story that the Germans were about ready to get rid of Boris (his father, Ferdinand I, abdicated in 1918, just after Bulgaria surrendered to the Allies). According to this account, Boris knew all about the plot and has allowed his police to protect the Communists who recently assassinated four prominent pro-Nazis in Sofia. The supporting facts: 1) although Boris' police made a great show of placing Sofia in a state of siege, and searched many houses, the assassins were not arrested; 2) the Bulgarian people have made it abundantly clear that...
...disk of steel which is cupped, then elon gated by a series of punches and dies which work the metal into cylindrical shape. The open end is trimmed or tapered, the base machined to shape. Between draws, which harden the steel, the cartridge case must be annealed. To protect it from corrosion and sparking it must also be varnish-sprayed and baked...
...Midget Manufacturing Co. was hacking away at an Army contract for 150,000 pants hangers. In Cleveland four J.A. companies are turning out 10,000 foundry wedges for aircraft parts every week; in New Jersey a J.A. pool (which includes the Intricate Trinkets Co.) is making shipping blocks to protect aircraft pumps in transit. And in Pittsburgh the Sesame Specialty Co. (all girls) is looking for foreign business: they have an incendiary bomb blanket already approved by the U.S. Bureau of Mines...