Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particular level. I have in this matter declared the policy of His Majesty's Government many times without succeeding always in convincing people across the sea. However, I'll try once more and say for the umpteenth time that the policy of this government is to maintain the independence of sterling. . . . We have never attempted nor are we attempting now to fix exchange at a given point or maintain it even within a fixed limit of values...
...just as important" as the invention of the automobile. Chief objective of U. S. government in the next ten years, says he, should be "so to manage the tariff, and the money system, to control railroad interest rates; and to encourage price and production policies that will maintain a continually balanced relationship between the income of agriculture, labor, and industry." To those who want to keep government out of business he retorts: "The hard facts are that for years government has been in business, and business in government, to a point where it is impossible to untangle the mess...
...order to promote trade and commerce in the public interest, further improve railroad service, and maintain the integrity and credit of the industry, rail-road companies of the U. S. do hereby establish an authoritative national organization which shall be adequately qualified and empowered in every lawful way to accomplish these ends where concert of policy and action are required...
...political ideas. One criticism of this new feature of the Liberal Club's policy appears. Unfortunately in publishing these interviews, no conclusions are to be drawn; the reader is to be left to draw his own inferences from the facts. Though this may be partly necessary to maintain an impartial attitude, it does not seem inevitable. Both candidate, club member, and undergraduate would be better for a frank evaluation by an organization with no votes and no political fences to tend. Nevertheless, the important thing is that the Liberal Club has brought forth a new feature which promises greatly...
...takes 100 tin cans a year to maintain the average U. S. family-about 60 for food and about 40 more for oil, shoe polish, paint, etc., off & on throughout the year. Since cans, once opened, are of little further use, that means the U. S. consumes 12,000,000,000 cans annually. Tin cans, as all the world knows, are not made from tin but from tin plate which is 98½% steel with 1½% coating of tin. Last year the can makers used more steel than any other industry except the automobile, absorbing one-eighth...