Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...determines through WPB what materials we shall have and to what customers we shall deliver and when. He controls the wages and salaries we shall pay . . . sets standards of quality for our products; he tells how we shall keep our books and [what] records he requires us to maintain. Finally he takes in taxes about three-quarters of any profit and reserves the right through renegotiation to take away whatever additional amount he sees...
...action made sense even to the greedy Farm Bloc. For by holding corn around its present price, the Administration aimed also to maintain the current corn-hog ratio at a point which encourages turning corn into hogs instead of into cash.* Since 80% to 90% of the corn crop normally goes into hogs on the farm anyway, most farmers will not be penalized by the new ceiling because hog prices are pegged so high that corn-on-the-hoof sells at around $1.50 a bushel. Corn itself has not sold that high since...
...Britain's exports. Of equal importance is the role of Empire in providing outlets for British investments. "So far it has been too little realized that overseas projects in the colonies and elsewhere have a great part to play in providing the investment opportunities necessary to maintain employment...
...program which Governor Stassen had previously proposed (TIME, June 15) -including disarmament of Axis nations, a United Nations court and military force, administration of international airports and sea lanes, programs to increase world literacy and world trade. ("Only in this way can those countries with high standards of living maintain those standards without...
...these makeshift strips George Kenney soon was landing 2,000,000 lb. of supplies a week. In a single day he delivered 519,000 lb.-100 planeloads. He flew in a 250-bed hospital with enough equipment to maintain it for ten days. He delivered a four-gun battery of 105-mm. howitzers, with tractors to haul them and crews to operate them. A Flying Fortress is designed to carry no more than 6,000 lb.; a 105-mm. howitzer unit weighs 7,000. Kenney flew the guns 1,500 miles from Australia and delivered them over weather-treacherous...