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Word: maintainence (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Squeeze. Prices have skyrocketed because of blockade, crop failures, hoarding by merchants, officials and speculators. International relief agencies maintain 75 stations in the stricken area, but must pay prohibitive prices for what food they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Squandered Lives | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

Larger Pumps. That is exactly what Morse's group did, by reducing air pressure to a rarity hitherto unattainable on an industrial scale. To do this, they had to maintain a high vacuum of less than 1 mm. air pressure inside the huge tanks and pipes where materials were to be treated. Mechanical pumps (which work not by sucking but by sweeping air out of a vessel) are not very effective at pressures below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Much Ado About Nothing | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...premiums ($3 a head for A grade hogs, $2 for B1) guaranteed the farmer a better price-but only if he maintained the quality of his stock. But the subsidy was probably enough to keep hog breeding at its war-swollen level, enable Canada to ship at least 500,000,000 lb. a year to Britain. This is what Britain needs to maintain her 4-oz. weekly bacon ration, what Mackenzie King's Liberal Government needs to quiet Opposition yammering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE DOMINION: Jimmy Rides Again | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...Russians figure that this policy, if effective, would give them regional security and at the same time enable them to maintain an army which need not be very large, yet would be the largest in Europe. Russia then could concentrate most of her energies on the construction and expansion of the Soviet economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The Test | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...restore and maintain internal order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: National Neurosis | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

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