Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farmers & Labor. To farmers, the "cessation of hostilities" meant the end, on Dec. 31, 1948, of certain farm subsidies. These subsidies, designed to protect farmers who expanded during the war from a postwar collapse, are based on the abracadabra of "parity." They have already cost the Government $80 million for potatoes, which were luxuriantly overproduced in the past year. A few more such bumper harvests in protected commodities might cost the Government $1.5 to $2 billion a year...
...University to report to the Dean's Office or to the House masters the presence of firearms and or ammunition which are seen in students rooms. If such firearms are there without permission, it will be necessary for the Administrative Board to take serious disciplinary action in order to protect other students and the community...
...that the market had been rigged. So it had. The Dairymen's League Co-operative Association, an organization representing some 27,000 of the 44,000 milk producers in the six-state New York milkshed, made no bones about having done the job. Reason: the league wanted to "protect" farmers from a drop in milk prices, which, under a Federal-State marketing formula, are largely determined by butter prices. (The combined average of butter and skim-milk prices for the 30 days ending December 24 had to be over $1 to keep prices...
Says Dr. Stoll: "When we Americans manifest an unbecoming impatience at how slothful other peoples are in undertaking . . . steps to free themselves from [worm infection], let us ruminate on the extraordinary slowness demonstrated by a supposedly widely educated people to protect itself against trichinosis ... by the simple device of eating pork only when the trichinae in it have been cooked, say, to the consistency of medium-boiled eggs...
Pennywise (July). In Portland, Ore., street orator Phillip Baker demanded that police protect his right of free speech, said that every time he opened his mouth a listening drunk tossed in a penny...