Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...objected to a phallic "Suite from Catullus" in Adaptei McHugh's book, The Blue Hen's Chickens, Sumner, who caid he was "not at all surprised," was now operating his battered old Society for the Suppression of Vice under a slightly more delicate name: the Society to Maintain Public Decency...
...unequal scramble for books between undergraduates and research students and a poorly organized circulation system. Until Lamont Library provides the answer to College reference work, an interim system emphasizing student requirements rather than those of the 1500 men holding stack permits would enable an overburdened library to maintain adequate facilities for the undergraduate...
...European industrial machine with German coal. Heavy industry no longer would threaten Europe under the Potsdam proposals, for Allied nations had first call on Ruhr coal and would receive in addition 1,557 factories in reparations. Germany was to receive food in return for the coal and could maintain a not-too-proud existence as an agricultural and light industrial nation. But the Potsdam proposals never saw much action. Just as other parts of the agreement stalled before the ideological clashes of the great powers, so reparations and levelling of German industry melted in the heat of the East-West...
...this year. Meanwhile the wisdom of building up German industry at this time becomes increasingly doubtful as each new report comes in from Europe. Ruhr miners, on a 4,000 calorie per day diet, are only producing half their pre-war output, though Saar miners on 3,800 calories maintain an 80 percent production rate. The fact that many of the heads of the coal as well as the iron and steel industries are known Nazis may account for this, and at the same time point up the dangers of a return of the Junker cartels that held power between...
...question still unanswered was how much control over Bizonia's occupation policies Congress would demand in return for more U.S. dollars. Looking for a compromise which would keep both Congress and the British happy, the conferees had one big point to make. Britain will still maintain the bulk of her 200,000-man occupation army in Bizonia, thus precluding the necessity for sending any more U.S. troops...