Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page report to the Allied Control Council, owlish Professor Calvin Hoover argued: 1) a minimum German living standard equal to the European average was required (not merely allowed) by the Potsdam terms; 2) in order to maintain this standard, Germany must import food and raw materials, export industrial products; 3) Germany's industrial exports must be in the same categories (steel, chemicals) as her prewar exports. On these premises, Hoover's report first proposed an annual German steel production of 6.8 million tons, later raised this to 10 million. The British are willing to see Germany produce...
...plan that Minister Ilsley thus announced would raise about $2,500,000,000, a little more than half the $4,650,000,000 he would need to run the Government, maintain the armed services, pay for social reforms, and help the needy nations of Europe. Much of the difference would have to be made up by borrowing. Mr. Ilsley hoped that the people themselves would be the lenders. He recalled that Canada's Ninth Victory Loan drive would begin Oct. 22 (the goal: as close to $2,000,000,000 as possible). Said he: "There is still a great...
...doctrine that the nation no longer needed manpower for its defense was foolish and dangerous talk. Said George Marshall: "The only effective defense a nation can now maintain is the power of attack. And that power cannot be in machinery alone." There must be men to man the machines. War Department planners, "who have taken every conceivable factor into consideration," advocated a system "which will permit the mobilization of an Army of 4,000,000 men within a period of one year following any international crisis resulting in a national emergency for the U.S." The chief units in that system...
Peacetime Japan needed over 5,000,000 tons of shipping to maintain her low standard of living; now only 420,000 tons are left. There are no oil reserves left, only 5,000 tons of cotton, only 40,000 bales of wool and only 180,000 tons of steel. Where will Japan, a great processor nation, get raw materials...
...faced Scots in Canada once before-in 1943. Then, they had flooded Ottawa with skirls of protest. This time the forewarned Board ruled: ". . . it was felt that an exception could be made for haggis, because as many Scotsmen contend it is a hardship to eat it as maintain it is a hardship to go without...