Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bridges signed only 900 Hawaiian workers. But two years later, some 33,000 agricultural workers had joined his ranks. In a first test of strength he struck the sugar plantations, tied them up for 79 days, almost wrecked the industry by ordering his strikers not to maintain its vital irrigation system. His victory was small: he won an 18½?-an-hour increase, to which the owners had agreed a month before the end of the strike...
Skeleton forces will remain on hand over the Christmas vacation to maintain limited dining, library, and recreational facilities for whatever is left of the college population after tomorrow's mass evacuation...
...between London and Washington, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps promised to lift currency controls "at the earliest possible time." (Few observers expect this time to arrive in the next two years.) U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snyder told Sir Stafford that the $400 million would help Britain "to maintain its present austerity program...
Watson reported that in the spring, the College will continue the procedure of giving preference for House openings to Seniors who have never resided in Houses. However, an equal number of Juniors and Sophomores will be accepted in order to maintain traditional House cross-sections of class groups...
...rich experience of hearing the tone and rhythm of their familiar voices is lost. . . . The deaf man . . . misses the snatches of talk normally overheard as we ride the subway ... the tick of a clock . . . vague echoes of people moving in other rooms in the house . . . [the] incidental noises [which] maintain our feeling of being part of a living world. ... He feels as if the world were dead...