Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Riding up in a truck's cab was black-robed, white-bearded Bishop Evlogios of Koritza-a town in Albania which the Greeks maintain ought to be theirs. The bishop agrees. Again & again the column halted to let the bishop scramble out and bless passing soldiers...
Last week, British businessmen in Bur ma thought they would stay on. Britain still holds large investments in Burmese commerce and industry, and most of Burma's exports go to Empire countries. Burma, squeezed between two Asiatic giants (India and China), has permitted Britain to maintain military missions...
Such an ambitious program has been decried by some who maintain that there will later be a surplus of college-trained citizens for the sort of jobs that will satisfy them. But this argument is weakened by Commission figures that show the need for 1,000,000 teachers and 56,000 doctors within a decade. And the education itself need not be aimed at producing a horde of claimants for polished white-collar jobs...
Split-Up. Common stockholders of Bethlehem Steel Corp. voted to split their 5,000,000 shares 3 for 1. But Chairman Eugene G. Grace dispelled any hopes of a special cash dividend out of Beth Steel's high earnings: they were being salted away, he said, to "maintain a sound financial structure" and to meet maintenance charges of $90,000,000 a year...
...Some critics" said Ernie Bevin, ". . . say we are an old country and going downhill. [But] we think of ourselves as a young, vigorous and forward-looking country, with our best days still ahead. . . . The whole nation has accepted the fact that while they fought to maintain their liberties, they must now maintain their independence by hard work...