Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sooner or later according to all past experiences this postwar period of prosperity will end in a depression unless we adopt a positive program to maintain full employment. This is the great new field of economic statesmanship. Our modern highly urbanized, highly industrialized sections can no longer stand the social strain and economic shock of great depressions...
...program to maintain full employment, and an ever advancing national income as productivity increases, requires a more positive role by government than we have had in the past. We have neglected the conservation and development of our material and human resources. By means of sound public investment projects we can raise the productivity of the country, increase the real income, and open up investment outlets for private enterprise...
...least 75% of Bolivians are illiterate. Schools are ill-equipped, ill-staffed. A deplored fact: "Bolivian law requires that mining enterprises and haciendas maintain primary schools for their employes. . . . [Thus] the control of administration and teaching personnel remains in the management of these interests...
...legal minimum [wage] rates . . . are clearly insufficient to maintain a decent and healthy standard of living...
...Brakes are installed on dive-bombers to maintain constant speed in the dive, give the pilot a steady aiming platform...