Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understand, it, Congress has passed the buck to the individual states, and to the clumsy and difficult absentee-ballot system which most maintain. . . . Certainly no method of cutting the service vote more effective than the absentee-ballot system could be found, if that is what is desired...
...have greatly increased since 1939, the working capital position of manufacturing business is poorer than before the war. The significant aspects of the situation are not the increases in cash and current assets but the ratio of these current assets to liabilities, and the adequacy of current assets to maintain present production levels in the future...
...million new trucks. The report, tactfully but to the point, suggested that nearly a million and a half trucks, added to "the very substantial numbers" now in possession of the armed forces and the Allies, was "a tremendous number of trucks." The Committee then warned the War Department to "maintain an accurate and up-to-date inventory" of its trucks, with an eye on how many ton-miles of use they are getting. (This resulted from stories of vast stores of unused trucks...
...being gagged in any way on criticism, Jimmy Durante may conceivably louse up the air tomorrow, and we're going to say so. Only the tempus fugit department will show that. ... If tempus fugits like mad, how can you maintain the status...
...deal has yet been made: the U.S. giants still righteously maintain that the only thing that keeps them from showing more British pictures is that there are not enough worth showing. Up to now, the cock-of-the-walk U.S. industry has had no reason to be cartel-minded, because it has had no really formidable international competition. But as Morris Ernst puts it: "Develop a giant to deal with a giant." If & when he can produce the pictures, J. Arthur Rank looks like a likely giant...