Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem in terms much like those which the U.S. Navy uses on the same subject. Said Tojo: "The success or failure of southern reconstruction [in the conquered Pacific areas] depends chiefly ... on the efficiency of water transportation. . . . Japan does not have surplus vessels, for Japan must maintain transportation within the extensive area of the Greater East Asia sphere, while she must [also] continue her gigantic [war] operation, continuously fighting one decisive battle after another." In other words, U.S. attacks on Japanese merchantmen, cruisers and destroyers have hit Japan at her weakest point...
Britain-as virtually all economists agree-has to maintain a thriving foreign trade. Ever since World War I, Britain with her high taxes has been moving in the direction of a high-cost economy, which makes it harder & harder for her to sell goods overseas. Before World War II Britain's exports (including her income from shipping) had already fallen behind her imports and her income from foreign investments. She was living on her capital (the sale of gold, and securities...
...Beveridge plan weighs Britain down so that she cannot maintain her trade, her people will face want, social security or no. They might avoid it if the U.S. continued Lend-Lease aid, thereby in effect assuming the cost of the plan. Or they might avoid it by export subsidies, barter agreements and other devices such as Germany used before the war-thereby colliding head on with U.S. policy, which has been steadily heading toward freer world markets...
King on the Future: Admiral King did not attempt to chart the course of the second year. But he was hopeful; he clearly intended to maintain and step up the Navy's offensives. At the approach of the second Dec. 7, he still believed what he said early in the first year: "Our days of victory are in the making...
...tain regime had been even briefer than the interim Directory which, during 1795-99, compromised the French Revolution's ideals and opened the control gates to Napoleon. No longer able to maintain the fiction of personal power, Pétain handed over the destinies of the country he professed to love to the hands of a man abhorred throughout France. To Pierre Laval, Adolf Hitler's Auvergne shyster, Pétain gave a dictator's power to rule by decree. For himself, Pétain succeeded in preserving at least the voice to appeal to the wavering...