Word: maintainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Carlson told how Chinese bands cross Japanese lines with ease, raid Japanese bases to get supplies; how Chinese guerrillas have set up well-functioning administrations which do everything from harrying the Japanese to keeping schools open; how they maintain their own small arsenals, form cooperatives to sell foodstuffs, have opened a bank which issues guerrilla money that the peasants gladly accept. At this bank Captain Carlson had no trouble in cashing a traveler's check...
...WEAF and WJZ), which serve New York City, most populous U. S. metropolitan area. Competing big stations contended that 500-kw. superpower is too rich a plum to give to one station in a competitive business, asked for equal power. Smaller stations, which could not afford to build and maintain superpower transmitters even if they could secure licenses, feared that the penetration of 500-kw. voices into their territory would steal their business, wanted no station to have such power...
...Administered by States, Workers' Education suffers badly from decentralization, which is nevertheless what WPA officials as well as educators (fearing charges and reality of dictatorship) want to maintain...
...gave a press interview last week, his chief point being that the U. S., Great Britain, Russia, France and other nations, in their own interests, "should make a joint display of firmness and solidity" against Japan. They should learn as China has learned, declared the Generalissimo, "that compromise cannot maintain peace, that aggressors must be defeated by force!" Washington statistics released last week disclosed that during the past 14 months the U. S. has sold $13,795,000 worth of finished war materials to China, $9,384,000 to Japan...
...separation of production and distribution from exhibition. As he promised when he took office in March, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold carefully explained his aims. Excerpt: "It is the belief of the Department of Justice that certain rearrangements must be made in the moving-picture industry in order to maintain competitive conditions in the future. Those rearrangements require a more constructive effort than mere prosecution for past practices. . . . Under this policy a lawsuit should be considered as the beginning of co-operation between the courts, the legislature, the Department of Justice and the industry to achieve a common...