Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gross profits of 17 largest Dutch steamship companies were 32,400,000 florins in 1913; 141,147,000 in 1916. Gold flowed into Dutch banks (as it also piled up in Swedish, Norwegian, Swiss and Spanish banks). But taxes went up. It cost the Dutch $600,000,000 to keep half a million men idle for four years along the German and Belgian frontiers and to intern prisoners from both sides...
...Denmark the price level rose 111%. Breeders of livestock made money by selling meat to Germany and Austria in 1914, 1915 and 1916. Fodder shortages slashed production of butter and milk upon which a majority of the Danes live. Real wages in Copenhagen failed utterly to keep pace with the rising cost of living...
...conditions in the U. S. are surely going to continue for a long time, are inevitably startled when they consider what would happen to the U. S. as a neutral in another world war like the last. Subsidizing merchant shipping is the only way that the U. S. can keep its flag on the high seas. In a world war U. S. shipping might become a highly profitable business. Keeping heavy industry, particularly steel, busy is a No. 1 national problem. In a war steel, copper, chemicals, oil would be due for a boom...
...muff for cornets and trombones, to fit over the keys, keep outdoor musicians' hands warm in winter. Also an electrically heated steering wheel to warm motorists' hands...
...crop island, St. Croix was hard hit when the bottom fell out of the raw sugar market and Crucians could no longer buy corn meal and salt fish to keep their fungee pots going. But relief cards, at first ignored as a white man's joke, soon brought an unprecedented prosperity. The Negroes, given canned goods, traded them for rations they liked better, for bright flimsy dresses, dime-store jewelry, tobacco...