Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within minutes, in the nation's great steel mills, workers began streaming out of the plants, finally leaving only standby crews on the job to protect the cooling furnaces. By nightfall, the fires were dying in Pittsburgh, Chicago, Youngstown, Gary and wherever the union's organizing hand had reached...
...control. "That is just what the oil lobby wants," said Truman. "Talk about corruption. Talk about stealing from the people. That would be robbery in broad daylight-and on a colossal scale. It would make Teapot Dome look like small change . . . I intend to stand up and fight to protect the people's interest in this matter." Since a bill to return the Tidelands to the states was already on its way from Congress to the White House for signature, this seemed a clear signal that the President would veto...
...responsibility for the "student mistreatment" onto University Hall, claiming that one reason for the mistreatment was the absence of a responsible official from the Dean's Office at the riot "In such a case as this," the report said, "it should be the obligation of the College to protect the welfare of the students...
...Because we are relatively safe from air attack today," Vandenberg continued, "an air force of a certain size can protect the U.S. and keep the balance of power in our favor. Today we have only one job that we would have to do if we got into a major war with Russia, and that is to lay waste the industrial potential of that country. Tomorrow, when they have developed their long-range air force and they have their atomic weapons, we have two jobs. We would have to put into first place the job of destroying the Russian air potential...
...disastrous if wrong), the Joint Chiefs of Staff have hopefully fixed 1954 as the U.S. "peril point." To prepare the U.S. for that moment, the JCS last fall belatedly fixed a minimum goal: an air force of 143 wings (126 combat, 17 transport) by 1954, designed to 1) protect the nation against the first shock of attack and 2) hold off the attackers until the U.S. can build to full war strength. It was against this professional estimate of the situation that the President of the U.S. set his opinion and cut the 1953 Air Force budget. Its effect...