Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kiesinger assured the President that the West German army will likely be cut by only between 15,000 and 19,000. Also, Bonn will maintain a ready reserve force of some 200,000 that can be used to flesh out cadre units on a few days' notice. In net effect, Kiesinger told Johnson, "I do not believe it will be necessary to reduce one troop...
Hallicrafters Co. of Chicago has its REACT (Radio Emergency Associated Citizens Team), under which some 50,000 citizen operators have been organized into 1,600 teams, each of which is required to maintain sufficient membership to guard citizens-band Channel 9 (a nationwide emergency channel) 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In Detroit, the Automobile Manufacturers Association operates the headquarters of HELP, whose several thousand members man a network of two-way radios designed primarily to help stranded motor vehicle drivers...
...year on new equipment, which is a lot by Philippine standards. Its own yards at II-oilo turn out a new tug every six weeks, two new barges a month-most of them prestressed concrete creatures that carry 2,000 tons of cargo, are cheaper and easier to maintain than standard steel barges...
...months, Lyndon Johnson has painstakingly reviewed the progress of the war and the prospects for peace. Last week, dissatisfied with the conflict's grindingly slow pace, the President was in the midst of yet another reappraisal. The choice, as the White House sees it, is either to maintain pressure on the Communists at roughly the present level or increase the punishment significantly in the next few months...
...first and third Sunday of each month, inmates and their wives wend their way to small buildings scattered throughout the 21,000 acres sur rounding the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. There they relieve tensions and maintain a semblance of normality by taking advantage of the fact that Parchman is the only prison in the U.S. that allows conjugal visits -officially, at least...