Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...witnessed the introduction of a Schumpeterian innovation--television--and its vested interests have banded together against the innovator to the protect their invesment. Now several of the industry's moguls, led by entrepreneur extraordinary Harold E. Stassen, have decided that an oligopoly sustained by unlimited television broadcasting might be better than the present unprofitable and uneconomical free competition. It would certainly bring a better product to all the people at a lower price; it would avoid needless duplication of resources, and would stabilize the industry immeasurably...
...Dodge plant in Hamtramck, Mich, ten assembly-line workers asked for coveralls to protect their clothing from oil and grease drippings. The company had none, so it issued the men smocks used regularly in the paint department. The boys began to jeer: "Next they will give you guys berets." Another worker catcalled: "Hello, Floozy!" Thus subjected to mortification, extreme mental cruelty, great mental anguish, the ten besmocked workmen walked off the job. They were followed by 146 other workers. Before the day was out, the company had to send 14,000 employees home...
...that a crack British parachute brigade would be sent from England to Cyprus, 900 miles from Abadan. At the same time, London assured Washington-which believes that British military intervention in Iran would be a disastrous mistake-that troops would not be sent in unless it became necessary to protect British lives and property. The British also announced that they would refer the nationalization dispute to the World Court at The Hague...
Rubber & Reflections. When the mural is half submerged, the protoplasmic life painted on the floor will waver greenly and the figures along the walls will stand reflected upside down in the pool. To protect his work from the water, Rivera has mixed a plastic called polystyrene with his fresco pigments, plans to varnish the whole with transparent rubber...
...Mohammed Mossadeq huddled his frail frame in an overstuffed chair behind the guarded doors of an office in Teheran's Parliament building. He would not budge from the room, but worked, ate and slept there, a nationalist fanatic living in fear of assassination by other nationalist fanatics. To protect himself from snipers, he ordered all the windows of his room boarded up. In an adjoining chamber, a parliamentary oil commission was drafting a plan to take over the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., declared nationalized last month...