Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Facilities to increase pipeline delivery can be built at present only with steel from the United States. [Should] such facilities ... be provided to the international group . . . and thus maintain their existing monopoly of pipeline deliveries to the Eastern Mediterranean and through it to Europe? ... In my opinion, an increase in Iraq production will only serve to warp further the present unequal position. . . . The problem of oil in the Middle East is one of seeing that the oil produced in each political unit gets its fair share of the total market...
Foreigners in Chungking listen to Kuomintang complaints that the Communists: 1) maintain their own government, army and currency, collect their own taxes, refuse to obey Chungking's mandates; 2) are more interested in extending their political sphere than in fighting Japan; 3) have exceeded their agreed-to military strength...
...Great Britain and Russia will purchase no gold from any country which has broken with the Axis but still acquires gold from nations which maintain relations with the Axis...
Greatly admired though he was in the U.S., T. V. Soong found it difficult to maintain his prestige in China after the fall of Burma, when he could get almost no help from the U.S. Besides questions of public policy there were personal differences between T. V. and his two potent sisters, Mme. H. H. Kung and Mme. Chiang Kaishek: Mme. Kung in general represents conservative party politics and T. V. by comparison, the aggressive liberal forces. Mme. Chiang sided with the Kungs...
Vice President Larco Herrera is a famous and hilarious character in Peruvian politics. His appearance has been compared to that of a brunette turkey in a high stiff collar. A stickler for rigid protocol, he has sometimes been forced to maintain a multiple personality. During a period of political stress he was simultaneously Minister of Foreign Relations and Minister of Finance. Peruvians say he would write a formal note: "Rafael Larco Herrera, Minister of Foreign Relations of Peru, presents his respects to Mr. Minister of Finance, for the outstanding work he is performing." Next day would come the equally formal...