Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot," he said, "accept the views that a power is entitled to possess naval forces generally superior to those of others on account of the vastness of its overseas possessions and the extensiveness of the lines of communication it has to protect. If such a view were correct, how could one explain why there should be parity between Britain and the United States?" Nagano went home, Japan completed its present fleet-on a ratio limited not by treaty but by Japan's ability to compete industrially...
...common stock. Roared he: "I insist the Erie buy its financing on the same prudent basis as it buys its railroad equipment-that is, to benefit its stockholders rather than any selected seller. . . ." Warned Railroader Newton: "I would be reluctant to bring legal action . . . [but] I shall protect the interests...
...through the first half, while Burditt fidgeted nervously with the mask that he wore to protect a broken nose, the Crimson offense functioned in low gear as the team concentrated on harrassing the Princeton sharpshooters, Bill Vogt and Jack Palmer...
Life Is Real. In Washington, a patent was awarded to Charles T. Jacobs for a device that keeps the ice in a cocktail shaker from diluting the "dividend." In Des Moines, the Iowa legislature voted to protect ladies in sailboats from getting splashed by making it unlawful for a motorboat to pass a sailboat to the windward...
Federal grand juries seldom indict for lynching anywhere, but a jury made legal race history last week in Jackson, Miss. by doing just that: indicting Deputy Sheriff Luther Holder of Jones County-as well as four leaders of a lynch mob-because he did not protest or protect the jail or cell of one Howard Wash and so failed to keep alive his prisoner...