Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inconsistency" between the Government's policy of retrenchment and the NRA's policy of expansion. His prime points: 1) Business and industry began to deflate expenses immediately after the 1929 crash whereas for four years the Government added 10,000 workers to its payrolls and attempted to maintain salaries at boom levels in a further attempt to break the depression. 2) This Federal policy produced a series of Treasury deficits which the country voted to end in the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt. 3) The Government is now reorganizing itself on a permanent long-range basis whereas business...
Decided to maintain the Civilian Conservation Corps (forest camps) throughout the winter...
...vice president of the National Conference on City Planning; Sociologist Edith Elmer Wood, author of Recent Trends in American Housing. The conference talked & talked, adopted resolutions endorsing most opinions advanced. Chief opinions: 1) slum dwellers should be moved to homesteads on city outskirts, encouraged to provide their own food, maintain their own cottages; 2) the Federal Government should eliminate blighted areas with part of the $3,300,000,00 public works fund; 3) all slum property should be converted into public parks...
...implored them to honor his signature on the armistice terms. Animosity was directed principally against the Frick mines whose reopening, under threat of renewed picketing and warfare, had to be post-poned one day. The Fayette County sheriff talked of appealing for U. S. troops to maintain peace. To prevent a recurrence of the Pennsylvania coal troubles elsewhere NRA appealed to the country for a moratorium on strikes and lockouts. Approving this, too, the President declared it was "on a par with Samuel Gompers' memorable War-time demand to preserve the status quo." Appointed by him to adjust...
...Pecora called on Exchange President Whitney, told him speculation must be curbed. Last week the Exchange announced two new rules: 1) brokers must report weekly to the Exchange all that they know of the operations of pools and syndicates; 2) traders with debit balances of over $5,000 must maintain margins equal to 30% of the debit balance; those with debit balances less than $5,000 must maintain a margin equal to 50% of the debit balance. Calculated in the ordinary way-the proportion of a trader's equity to the total value of the stocks in his account...