Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major test case filed by the trustbusters to block the merger of Bethlehem Steel (No. 2 steelmaker) and Youngstown Sheet & Tube (No. 6) gave businessmen hope that the courts would lay down a new philosophy to guide the growth of the giants as well as protect the midgets...
Overturning the unanimous recommendation of the U.S. Tariff Commission, President Eisenhower last week rejected a plea by the New England fishing industry that he raise the tariff on groundfish fillets (i.e., boneless cuts stripped from pollock, cod, haddock, other bottom fish) and thus protect beleaguered U.S. ground fishermen against further imports (now 128 million Ibs. -annually, three times higher than in 1945), chiefly from Canada, Iceland and Norway. While fully aware of the domestic problem, explained the President, "I am ... reluctant to impose a barrier to our trade with friendly nations"-and especially with nations whose "economic strength...
...increasing." Then he recited what might be called the second set of reasons for Britain's intervention in Egypt: it brought about the creation of a U.'N. force, and exposed Russian intentions in the Middle East. Set No. i-Britain intervened to separate the combatants and protect the canal-has not been popular for some time. Concluded Eden: "I am more convinced than I have been about anything in my political life that what we have done is right . . . and history will prove...
Twenty-four hours later, arriving in Belgrade on a good-will visit, Greek Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis warmly clasped the proletarian paw of Marshal Tito. The inconsistency was more apparent than real: Greece's alliance with Communist Yugoslavia is designed to protect them both from Russian attack. Reaffirming Greek-Yugoslavian solidarity, Karamanlis admitted that the Balkan Pact which links Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey is currently "sleeping"-and will continue to slumber until Turkey and Greece are able to settle their differences over Cyprus...
...crash-grounding in the sort of meteorology that would be most useful in war. They learned how to predict whether the sky over a German city would be clear enough at a certain hour for high-altitude, visual bombing. Similar methods predicted days when dirty weather would protect ground troops from enemy...