Word: safeguards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navy men say that Dr. Sablan did "a great job" in spite of dwindling food supplies and the lack of drugs-he has a knack for keeping villages immaculate, the greatest public-health safeguard. As he has not been paid in three years, his Army and Navy friends are now trying to get an appropriation...
...downfall had come just a day after his triumphant radio message to the Arab peoples of the Middle East. Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Trans-Jordan, he announced, had agreed to join a League of Independent Arab States "to achieve the welfare of all Arab countries and safeguard their independence against all aggression." Had Pan-Arabia been born at last...
...soldiers silently forced Antonescu up the stairs to a small fireproof vault King Carol had built to safeguard his stamp collection. There they locked...
...Russian commanders in Botosani and Dorohoi knew little and cared less about civilian administration. Their job: to safeguard their Army, provide supplies and billets. Their chief desire: to get back to the front with their units. Their reaction: Communist contempt for "capitalist inefficiency and selfishness...
...union's boss, Phil Murray, appeared before Senator James Murray's War Contracts subcommittee. He wanted Congressional blessing for the annual wage; not compulsory legislation, but approval of the principle. He felt that this would help unions get annual-wage provisions written into contracts, thus provide a safeguard against postwar layoffs. His argument: industry has been guaranteed postwar profits for two years through "carry-back and carry-forward" tax provisions. Farmers have been guaranteed 90% of parity prices on crops. Why should not workers be guaranteed a full year's pay for a full year...