Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extra clerks and 35 additional letter-carriers have ben added to the staff to deal with the holiday rush. Providing there are no big snows, the post office thinks it can maintain normal service...
Advocates of the pact maintain that since the United States is already morally committed to defend western Europe just as surely as if it were still filled with American soldiers no actual additional military obligation on our part would result from our participation. The advantages would be great. By putting our already-incurred commitments down on paper, we would do much to bolster the center-party governments on the continent by proving to the people of France and the Benelux nations that we will not desert them in case of a Russian invasion. There is still a very real segment...
Chrome plating and glass bricks are invading Harvard Square in accordance with a master plan to create and maintain and important business center more inviting than the Central Square locale...
...siege of Stalingrad is not only interesting tactically, but many historians and most of the captured German generals maintain that it was the actual turning point of the war. Theodor Plievier, a German left-wing writer who made his reputation in the 1920's with violent attacks on militarism and imperialism, wrote "Stalingrad" during the war, presumably in Russia and with Soviet blessing. The book was published in Berlin shortly after the end of the war, and has since sold over a million copies in Germany alone. Although it is slightly slanted to glorify the Russian Army and was extremely...
...contract . . . Corruption thrives on these conditions, but corruption is but one aspect of the consequences. The tendency to milk the soil instead of conserving it, to spend before money loses value instead of saving, to reap a quick profit instead of engaging in long-term constructive efforts, to maintain what the monetary economists call 'liquidity of assets,' but in easily salable goods rather than money-all these underlie the corruption. Corruption is only the froth and foam on the crest of this massive ground swell of civic demoralization...