Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the week was out, Britain decided to dip into her own gold reserves (amounting, with other reserve assets convertible into dollars, to $2.4 billion). She traded gold for $80,000,000. But Britain, needing her gold reserves to maintain confidence in the pound sterling, was not likely to make major inroads into them for current dollar needs...
...living space to satisfy the increased demand. The impact of high prices is felt as severely by the colleges as by any other group in the national structure. In Lehman Hall, Aldrich Durant and his assistant wizards grapple with the same problem that confronts the conscientious manufacturer--how to maintain the quality of the product without raising the cost to the consumer. And, like thrifty housewives, the dining hall stewards wonder if they can keep the cost of meals within their present budget. Students also, particularly veterans with a static income, are experimenting with the manipulation of a dollar which...
Mather reluctantly admitted he thought that Russia had impeded the recovery of Europe by refusing to cooperate with the western powers in the reconstruction of Germany. But he called it the United States' world obligation to maintain amicable relations...
...stunts pleased everyone but those who wanted to maintain the Bowl's 20-year reputation as a center of serious music in Southern California. The orchestra had been without a conductor since Leopold Stokowski left this spring. Last week, apparently embarrassed by the variety-show tone of its 1947 season, the Bowl hired Eugene Ormandy as "principal conductor and musical adviser" for 1948. In a guest appearance last season, Ormandy got more out of the orchestra than anyone else was able to. Ormandy will still keep his winter job with the Philadelphia Orchestra (where he had also succeeded Stokowski...
...statement that touched off the season's cascade of antitrust suits, Attorney General Thomas Campbell Clark had called for jail sentences for those who "conspire to maintain or increase present prices." Ever since, the antitrust division's 160 lawyers have been working overtime filing charges against leaders of the rubber, brake-lining, color film and oil industries (TIME, Sept. 1). All were accused of conspiracy to fix prices...