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Word: maintained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hubbub caused by steel and coal strikes during recent weeks has obscured what may very well be the deciding factor in the negotiations still ahead; the delicate political position of Philip Murray as he attempts both to reach a settlement with the steel industry and maintain his leadership of the brawling...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...local farmer moved a barn onto his place just south of Massachusetts Avenue, neatly eclipsing the top of Blue Hill, which the observatory was using for a transit sight. The University finally had to buy a right of way in the roof and chop a hole through it to maintain the sight...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/8/1949 | See Source »

Other patients treated at the School and in Los Angeles by the three respirators so far constructed, have been able to maintain regular breathing for sustained period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Respirator Could Make Iron Lung Obsolete in Polio | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

...came when Dr. T. F. Tsiang, representing Nationalist China's crumbling government, rose to speak. Said he: "During the past two years, while the dike from the Persian Gulf to Scandinavia was built against the flood of Communism, the Far East has been inundated . . . Can the United Nations maintain its prestige . . . by ignoring what has taken place in my country? . . . I appeal to the General Assembly to be brave enough to embrace the vision of one indivisible world and not to retreat to the false illusory security of half a world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: A Time Will Come | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...such solution is in sight for eggs. To maintain the market for shell eggs, CCC offered to buy dried eggs at $1.27 a Ib. This was such a handsome price that CCC had to buy nearly 30 million Ibs. of dried eggs. Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan is afraid the total cost may run to $200 million. Despite the enormous surplus, wholesale prices this month were the highest in a quarter century. Mourned Brannan: "The prospects for the year ahead are still more discouraging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Wild Harvest | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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