Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...technically trained men. Cultural values which ordinated to the immediate job of destroying the even five months ago were important are now sub-enemy. This is the inevitable loss of war. But in the hasty conversion of the colleges into arsenals of technocracy, definite opportunities which exist to maintain the liberal tradition throughout the war must not be wasted in the training programs. Secretary of War Stimson has said that the Army training program will temporarily destory liberal education. It need...
...conservationists' remedy for the surpluses is as plain as the nose on a moose's face: let the Government release a modest amount of ammunition to hunters (dealers' shelves are now bone-bare). They point out that such hunting is not only necessary to maintain wildlife population at an optimum level, but also taps a potential food supply of more than one-quarter billion pounds of meat-plus feathers...
...only one year, 1941, did these expenditures run much above reserves set aside for depreciation. Thus while the steel companies last year spent $262 million on new equipment, total depreciation charges amounted to $232 million. This means that the major steel producers have relied on their depreciation reserves to maintain the value of their plants, while the Government has stepped in to finance most of the new plant capacity. Such financing was unknown in World War I and raises some thorny ownership questions for the postwar...
...life preserver was thrown by whip-smart, likable Editor-Owner Freda Kirchwey, 48, who bought the Nation from Maurice Wertheim in 1937 for two reasons: 1) she wanted to maintain it as a voice for leftism; 2) she hoped to make it selfsupporting. Her new plan: to transfer the magazine's ownership from The Nation, Inc. (herself) to Nation Associates, Inc., a new, nonprofit organization. Freda Kirchwey will still be editor and publisher, will draw a salary. Sole advantage of the new plan: she will feel freer to ask for funds when it is understood that...
Unlike the Army specialized training program "during their college training, Navy students may take part in all college athletics and other campus activities... Navy students may also join all previously established college organizations and fraternities... students under the V-12 (college training) program will be required to maintain the Navy's standards of discipline, although military activities will be kept at a minimum and subordinated to academic training," the release stated...