Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carry out such) a maneuver as would be required if our fleet left Panama to meet an enemy approaching across the Atlantic. The aim is to convoy a group of repair ships, mine sweepers, food, fuel, hospital ships and the aeroplane carrier Langley to Culebra in order to establish an advance base. Then, in case of a battle, the fleet would not be obliged to return all the way to Panama for refueling...
...Labor Party's policy: "Capital Levy is dropped pro tem. To be brought up later but not to be introduced until after the permanent staff of the Treasury have been consulted. In foreign policy the Premier intends to use the League of Nations as his main instrument to establish and maintain world peace and thereby to set an example to other nations. He will also vigorously ostracize secret diplomacy. In general his policy will be to promote the welfare of the workers "by fair and constitutional means...
...last few years have been lean ones for many of Boston's leading interests and industries. The Massachusetts cotton-spinning trade is glum, mills are closing down. The leather business has been dull for some time, shoemaking has begun to re-establish itself further west. The "coppers," Boston's favorite speculations, have also paid lean dividends, or none...
...automobile industry has consistently confounded conservative judgment. Year after year it apparently reaches the saturation point, only to establish new production records and go ahead again. The reaction of the public to the recent National Automobile Show in New York was such that automobile makers are now quite cheerful, and are talking of hanging up new production records in 1924 with a 25% greater rate of production than last year. One thing is, however, certain-the period ahead will be one of intense sales competition. Practically all leading makers are giving scrupulous attention to small refinements and popular mechanical features...
...aims of Mr. Du Pont and Dean Collie have echoes abroad. A Clarence Graff Fellowship has been founded at Oxford "to foster a better understanding in Great Britain of the social conditions and currents of opinion in the United States and to establish friendly contacts...