Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Costa Rican officials considered occupying Cocos Island, which lies about 550 miles southwest of Panama and which no nation claims, to prevent its use as a belligerent submarine base...
Precautions went screwy. To prevent autos from striking them during blackouts, cows and horses were painted with white stripes. Sandbags climbed walls like ivy, till there was such a shortage that some lingerie factories began making them. Instead of sandbags, the lawyers of Gray's Inn protected their windows with heavy legal tomes. A rabbi banned the sounding of Shophar ram's horn on the Jewish New Year for fear the populace would take it for an air-raid signal. Stores sold luminous paint for switches and doorknobs, "gas costumes" guaranteed to resist mustard gas 45 minutes, furniture...
...Ministry of Information announced: "The German wireless has distorted the purpose of the British contraband policy as setting out to strangle neutral trade and bringing starvation and death to old people, women and children. . . . What Britain is endeavoring to do is to prevent the German Government from importing goods ... to prolong...
...committee used these ugly facts to pose a problem: How can democracy prevent such tragic waste? That fundamental problem is certain to be posed again & again until it is permanently solved. But the report of the committee was badly timed for getting Americans to face their problem now. It came at the very moment when a war boom threatened to abolish unemployment until peace brings the next depression...
Advantages of Japan against her new competitor are: 1) her supply-source is prodigious-she has big (two or three feet across), murderous-looking king crabs, each of whose arms provides two cans of crab steak, 2) her crabs do not require treatment to prevent discoloration...