Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obligations are issued and their own internal obligations. On their internal obligations they have a right to tax the people until the issue is out of existence, almost." Heartless Contracts. Here & there in the U. S.. stern voices were raised to the effect that the Government ought to maintain international good faith by paying foreign holders of its bonds the equivalent of gold in paper dollars. But when May payments on billions & billions of dollars worth of public and private debt fell due at home last week, there was no real complaint against the nationwide default on the "gold...
...preening itself to become the home of all Navy LTA. since the Navy had announced that the station at Lakehurst would be decommissioned "in the near future." With the Akron gone, the Los Angeles in dead storage, the Macon already assigned to Sunnyvale, the Navy could not afford to maintain the eastern base. Besides the sugarloaf dock at Sunnyvale, a huge landscaped oval encompasses some 40 lesser structures: a helium repurification plant, a 2,000,000-cu. ft. helium tank (like a city gas tank), two other tanks each holding 2,000,000 cu. ft. under pressure; a locomotive shed...
...engines for propulsion, three auxiliary engines for operation of equipment. One of the three generates current for the radio when the ship is resting on land or water. (The control car is shaped like a boat.) Another engine operates a blower to force air into the envelope and help maintain its shape. The third drives a windlass for lowering and raising a sub-cloud car. The sub-cloud car, streamlined and camouflaged to blend into an overcast sky, can be lowered 1,000 ft. below the ship for observation and photography. A telephone wire runs through the core...
...remain the masters of our own situation. The United States is perfectly entitled to reduce the gold content of the dollar. There is much to be said for this policy, not only for America but for the rest of the world; but we must be firmly resolved to maintain the relative exchange value of our own currency at a figure adjusted to our own wage levels." The Financial News looked at the idea of an exchange duel with the U. S. with some complacency: "We would stand to win an advantage. Despite the situation created by the abandonment...
...Macchi seaplane with a 2,800-h. p. Fiat motor driving two propellers. One after another these machines dove into Lake Garda, carrying to death in turn the crack pilots of the high speed school-Monti, Bellini, Dal Molin. Neri-until last month when Agello triumphed. British airmen maintain that the Macchi's phenomenal speed is due to a reduced wing span which makes its landing speed more than two miles a minute, a lower safety factor than is permitted in Great Britain. The S. B.-Rolls-Royce ship which won the last Schneider Trophy for Great Britain landed...