Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought them together was the crushing fact that Great Britain, once the great leader of the Western democracies, was broke. This was no mere phrase: like a man whose savings have dwindled away, Britain simply has not got the money to buy what she needs, much less to maintain her vital role in the world...
...years, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo took the oath of office as President of the Dominican Republic. (He had copped last May's rigged election, with 93% of the votes.) Delegates of 40 nations, on hand for the show at the Senate Palace, heard the Dictator blandly promise to "maintain the same system of democratic order followed heretofore." For the long-hatching plot of Dominican exiles to overthrow him (TIME, Aug. 11, 18) Trujillo had a characteristic answer. Halfway through his oration he paused, barked: "Whoever tries to disturb the peace will find that we are willing to defend...
...million-ton capacity of the U.S. steel industry enough for an expanding economy? In the debate on this question, steel industry spokesmen, while conceding that there are now shortages in supply, maintain that their capacity is sufficient for the long pull. Assorted critics, ranging from Government economists to ideological warriors, insist that unless 10 to 20 million additional tons of capacity are built, depression may result...
...Rebuttal. Industry's argument against the expansionists is based on the economics of production. Because of the scrap shortage, the industry cannot even maintain full use of its present capacity. But the current 85 million-ton production rate, industry points out, is 20 million tons greater than the 1929 "peak prosperity" year. The present steel shortage is largely due to demands that accumulated during the war and that, once satisfied, will slack off. Moreover, the shortage would be intensified by removing from present supply the five million tons of steel it would take to build plants to produce...
...world's airways, one fact was plain: the Air Age needed a lot of supercharging from state subsidies to maintain flying speed. Because of subsidies, free-enterprising American-flag lines, once way ahead, could now see a handful of foreign lines, state-supported in varying degrees, creeping up on their tails. On the choicest route-the North Atlantic-the American lines were still well in front. The Pacific Ocean was still an American lake. But over the land mass of Asia, the British, Dutch and French lines were pressing hard; Air France has just opened...