Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organizers to maintain the wartime level of enthusiasm on the collective farms? By more patriotism; in fact, by keeping alive war psychology...
...every case labor should recognize that "we cannot hope, with a reduced work week, to maintain now the same take-home pay for labor generally that it has had during the war." In some industries labor would have to reconcile itself to the fact that no increase at all was possible...
Gummere tried to maintain this attitude throughout his tenure of office. "I wasn't in there to present the case of any interest or group," he said. He freely admits that the school system was and still is, snarled with knotty problems. "But I didn't have to play politics and inflate small issues. It was always better when we settled issues, even of a hot racial nature, as quietly and unostentatiously as possible...
...fleet is needed in the postwar world? What kind of ships? What will they be used for? Both the Army and the Navy thought they knew. Franklin Roosevelt had laid out the course in his speech to the Congress in January, 1945: "We can fulfill our responsibilities for maintaining the security of our own country only by exercising our power and our influence. . . ." George Marshall translated this into practical, military terms: "The only effective defense a nation can now maintain is the power of attack." Navymen put it this way: "Our mission is to wage the peace around the world...
Next year it will cost Canada $1,068,170,527 to maintain the peacetime Army and pay the cost of demobilizing the wartime Army...