Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican rally and were greeted by an orchestral medley of Minnesota, Hats Off to Thee and Beautiful Ohio. Then both spoke from the same dais. Said Taft, warmly: "Governor Stassen and I have differed on many issues . . . but we are prepared to compromise our individual views to ... maintain the solidarity of the party." Replied Harold Stassen: "I have a deep respect for [Taft's] integrity, his sincerity and his ability...
...combat inflation for the duration of our Three Year Plan, to curb speculators against the Chinese dollar and to maintain China's international balance of payments, another fund will be required.... All use of such a fund should require the countersignature of a representative of the U.S. Government and it should not be set up until certain corrupt practices are stopped. Let us assume that the Chinese Government will act rapidly and effectively against the speculators and budget a $150 million exchange-stabilization fund for our total Three Year Plan...
Meanwhile, in Tihua, the Russians maintain a busy consulate general, a branch of their Foreign Trade Commissariat, the Sino-Soviet Aviation Corp., a branch of the Sino-Soviet Cultural Association, a school and a hospital. On Sundays, most of Tihua's Russians (more than 200 in all) go up the Urumchi River for an isolated picnic. In northwest Sinkiang and the western outpost of Kashgar there are even more Russians. Sinkiang workmen are mining valuable wolfram for them at Fuwen; others are tapping the rich oil pools at Wusu...
...prime consideration when one country wants to conserve its oil and another attempts the upkeep of a large military machine. Any Russian entrenchment in northern Iran comes as an economic and strategic threat to the Anglo-American interests in nearby Arabia. Besides giving the Soviet Union sufficient oil to maintain the ambitions of the Red Army, the plan for twenty-five years of Russian exploitation would weaken Allied control of the Iranian government and weaken the entire Anglo-American position in the Middle East. The United States alternately prodded and soothed Iran's Premier Ghavam into refusing Russian demands...
...cannot achieve the goal of full and stable employment nor maintain the present "high level of employment" on a two-world basis...