Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Results: 1) The delegates signed a protocol confirming their countries' "determination to maintain the present gold parities of their respective currencies, and recognizing that their common policy implies a development of international exchanges" (i. e. stimulation of trade and consequent payments between nations of the Gold Bloc). To push this program the Conference set up: 2) a permanent Gold Standard Secretariat at Brussels; and 3) subcommittees of the Conference charged with the duty of drafting concrete plans for action in accelerating trade and tourist travel within the Bloc...
...Mississippi. Along the seaboard it had settled down to a pitched battle between Standard Oil of New Jersey and the independents, with every other oil company helplessly drawn in. Standard was determined to keep its prices ½? above the independents and the independents were equally determined to maintain a 1½? differential...
...excitement over the Daniels case plainly indicated that U. S. Catholics are by no means through with Mexico's Revolutionaries and their long war against the Church. But apparently Mexico's Revolutionaries are also not through with the Catholic Church and its long war to maintain its position in that country. In the Chamber of Deputies last week Luis Enrique Fierro uprose to move that all Catholic bishops and archbishops be forthwith expelled from Mexico. Argued he: "We must open the minds of the people by teaching them to see the world in the light of science...
...scenic beauty with its panoramic views of the quietly appealing French countryside. The magnificent photography is in fact the film's chief virtue, for though the acting is capable and scenario well crystallized from the lengthy plot of the novel the picture is considerably protracted and it fails to maintain the serious aspects of the theme as it concentrates overmuch on satirizing the bourgeois mores of the unfortunate Madame Bovary. The comedy effects are good and the general effect is amusing, but its failure to bring out the fundamental problem which faces the heroine renders it unfortunately inconsequential. Flaubert...
...placed on the study of economic plants, with one hundred acres of the Institutions devoted solely to these. This station has had influence on the economic destiny of Cuba, for the study of sugar cane has enabled the Cubans to produce a better grade of sugar cane and to maintain its place at the head of the sugar industry...