Word: shields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They Never Told Us." Soviet indoctrination, however, did not shield all the 2,000 from the impact of home. Private Masaatsu Okada stammered: "My heart is full." Some wept. Recalling the bare grass mountains of Siberia, Toshiji Sugimoto choked: "When we first saw the bamboo forests this morning . . ." He broke off. "I just can't put it in words...
...idea was simple indeed. The way to stop spark plugs from broadcasting, he decided, was to enclose the ignition wires in metal shields leading from the magneto to the plugs. Thus, there would be a return path for the high-frequency elements in the spark current (the source of the trouble). The plugs would go right on broadcasting, but the waves they created would stay inside the shield...
...long since spread to the 1,650,000 men in the nation's vast military establishment. With the coming of Louis Johnson, old Army man and longtime friend of the Air Force, the unseemly feuding broke more openly into public view. There was no doubt of it; the shield of the republic was beginning to show some alarming cracks (see above...
...work together to provide better lives for our people without sacrificing our common ideals . . . But we cannot succeed if our people are haunted by the constant fear of aggression and burdened by the cost of preparing their nations individually against attack. In this pact we hope to create a shield against aggression and the fear of aggression-a bulwark which will permit us to get on with the real business . . . the business of achieving a fuller and happier life...
...Connell, the 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act, which provides for mail payments to the airlines mainly on the basis of whatever they need in order to keep operating, robs them of proper incentives. It offers little inducement to economically run routes and operations. It "tends to operate as a shield between the air carriers, and the ultimate in economic penalties-bankruptcy...