Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stand now where I have always stood, without quibble or equivocation, behind a league of nations with power to prevent war. . . . Along with lovers of peace throughout the world, I hail the result of the Moscow Conference, which, if language means anything, plainly proposes a league to maintain peace after the war. . . . The Senate might well see fit to endorse specifically the language of the Moscow Conference...
Over the radio from-Moscow, in persuasive Austrian accents, came suggestions to saboteurs: wreck your railways and destroy your roads; Hitler needs them to maintain his fronts in Italy and Yugoslavia, to get his food from Hungary and his oil from Rumania. Almost at once there were reports of breaks in the line from Graz to Klagenfurt in the southeast...
...huge inducement: if they hang on and sell their liquor themselves, they are liable to excess-profits taxes running up to 90%. But if they sell out, they will merely pay the 25% tax on long-term capital gains. But for the big companies with low inventories, who must maintain their competitive positions, the reverse is true: almost any way of acquiring more well-aged whiskey stocks makes sense. Example: Seagram is the No. 1 North American liquor company in sales. But even after buying up Frankfort's 400,000 bbl. of whiskey its total inventories of around...
...cater to the needs of its ubiquitous poor. But implicit in almost all his tales of Yankee ingenuity and invention-for-the-masses is another moral even more pertinent to U.S. industry. The U.S. got its head start in mass production precisely because the old countries thought they could maintain their monopoly of all the known skills of the 18th and 19th Centuries. In so doing they forced their poor relations in the new world 1) to build better and cheaper mousetraps than had ever been made before; 2) to believe in competition because they had proved that it could...
...breathing over a hill; cheap plaster of a poor domicile ennobled by light: yes, petty, if you like. But unless we care about such things, French things, domesticity, dancing, landscape - unless we care far more whole heartedly than we did in the last interval of peace - we shall never maintain the tedious vigilance and take the great trouble necessary to prevent war again, and again and again. Let every author on earth write an All Quiet on the Western Front: still it will not suffice, unless we all warmly feel that our ways, pleasures and sentiments and arts, are worth...