Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Intent. "The new act seeks affirmatively to build up a system of railways prepared to handle promptly all the interstate traffic of the country. It aims to give the owners of the railways an opportunity to earn enough to maintain their properties and equipment in such a state of efficiency that they can carry well this burden...
...Recapture Clause enables the Government "to maintain uniform rates for all shippers and yet keep the net returns of railways, whether strong or weak, to the varying percentages which are fair for them...
...trampled, as Victor Bugo says ideas finally do, on the bended necks of rulers. The world can still be plunged into war at the command of men who will run their own and others risks from their desk-chairs. Until that becomes impossible each nation must maintain its defense. Nor will it do any good for men to pledge themselves to anything. The hardest drinkers in a community are always those who, as Sunday School children, swore never to touch a drop of liquor; and it's the confirmed bachelors who fall for the chores girls...
...remainder of the show is spread with a prodigal profusion that only Florenz Ziegfeld can maintain. There are numerous minor luminaries of musical comedy in the cast, an unobtrusive plot, a succession of amiable melodies. In fact the only objection that can be raised against the show is the practical impossibility of obtaining tickets...
...school taxation more equitably over the larger area." 3) It "offers the possibility of arranging better units for the apportionment of school funds." 4) "State and Federal aid for education can better be focused through the media of larger schools." 5) "In some cases it cost less to maintain the consolidated school than the one-room schools that were united to form...