Word: maintainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third year of recovery [1935-36] and from that time on seek a continuing reduction of the national debt. This excess of expenditures over revenues amounting to over $9,000,000,000 during two fiscal years . . . is a large amount but the immeasurable benefits justify the cost. ... If we maintain the course I have outlined we can confidently look forward to ... increased volume of business, more general profit, greater employment . . . greater human happiness...
...above), he received an interim report from the RFC on his gold buying program. Out of $75,000,000 allotted it since the start of the purchase plan Oct. 26, the RFC had spent $17,000,000 on domestic gold, $45,000,000 on foreign gold. Therefore to maintain its buying power in the gold market the RFC was allotting itself another $25,000,000. President Roosevelt felt that $100,000,000 was a cheap price to pay for eight weeks of his experiment in dollar depreciation...
...atmosphere which contemporary writers have to re-create or be silent, it is probably the best available medium. For her mastery of it Mrs. Parker ought to be remembered with Ring Lardner. It is true that absolute objectivity, for all but the greatest writers, is an impossible attitude to maintain, and Mrs. Parker does not always maintain it. But by the time the reader becomes conscious that Mrs. Parker is grinning derisively at her characters as she writes, he realizes that he is grinning derisively himself...
...fail to sympathize with Mr. Bingham. Faced with a sharp drop in revenues last year, he cut expenses far below what would once have been considered a bare minimum, yet managed to maintain essentially a full program. Through it all, he has resisted all pressure to countenance the commercialization of Harvard sport. In comparison with other athletic directors, his conception of the place of athletics in a college has been the opitome of sanity. In justification of his present demand for new sources of income, he can point to the undoubted economics already effected. He can call attention...
...still believe that the editors of TIME, who are instrumental in shaping the character of this program, will continue to maintain the old high standards. But if the sponsors are to attach riders to the "March of TIME," in which they try to propagandize their own political beliefs, that is the nearest thing to supervising the make-up of the original program. It is just a matter of capitalizing on TIME'S popularity and reaching this audience through false means...