Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Education Association, which lobbies for hundreds of thousands of schools-teachers. And the colleges will probably be content to wait, figuring that if the grade and high schools get it first, higher education will only he that much closer. The important object this year, all federal-aiders maintain, is to get a permanent program started, and that is just what Democratic leaders are contemplating. David E. Lilionthal...
...after a brief Republican hiatus, the movement towards a human welfare society in America will continue." I do not maintain that the 80th Congress charged headlong into the millennium. 1946-48 represent years in which America could consolidate her position. The proliferation of government agenefes, bureaus, corporations, departments, etc. since 1932 alarms even Democrats--yet screams of anguish arise (from the CRIMSON) when a year passes without the usual bales of half-baked legislation. The "Republican hiatus" represents nothing more reactionary than a pause to think--but thinking seems to be out of style when government is conducted on sales...
Further disruption has occurred from the stoppage in trade from the industrial North to the agricultural South. Nor is there sufficient rice production to maintain the trade with Japan so important before the war. Moreover, the birth rate is so high that it will double the population in 25 years...
...long as volunteers remain sufficient to maintain the strength of the Army there will be no calls for induction," Royal said. Under the Draft Act the Army must try to meet its requirements through voluntary enlistments; if it fails to do this, it may make up the difference by draftees...
...Fairless given any thought to the steel shortage? "Are we going to sit here and see this [steel] demand fall," roared O'Mahoney, "or are we going to take action which will maintain the demand . . .? On every hand you find evidence of popular desire for things which are not being supplied . . . But you find also that because of inflation, people's needs are outrunning their income. Shall we just wait...