Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chuck Hoelzer, beginning with a margin to make up, climbed steadily for 200-yards of butterflying to win the breast stroke. Jerry Gorman led his quarter mile race by a reach at the flags, but to maintain his lead he had to swim a flat minute for the first 100 yards...
...White House elaborately sworn to secrecy. But the next day's morning newspapers carried a hint of the news. Evening papers carried a little more: a ''leak" from London. The Foreign Office had informed Washington that Great Britain, her economy nearly wrecked, could no longer maintain the security of Greece. That had been the subject of the White House conference. The story unfolded with no warning thunderclap, but in an atmosphere of such calm that the nation scarcely realized that a crisis had been reached...
Lowell's Bellboy quintet rang up its seventh straight inter-House victory yesterday afternoon, drubbing Dudley 58 to 35 to maintain a threatening position in the league race. The evening's activity saw league-leading Leverett avert a slip to second place by turning back a determined Winthrop five...
Last week, the American Red Cross launched its annual drive. It was asking for $60 million to maintain, among other things, this outlying post in Greenland. It will be needed...
Middle & Bottom. The Russians' earlier denazification drives neglected smaller fry. They worked on the theory: "Kill man at top, utilize man at middle, convert man at bottom." During 1946, the Russians-straining every nerve to maintain German industrial production for reparations to Russia-had freely used millions of middle and bottom Nazis in shops and factories. According to the Russians' own figures, 27,994 office workers and 24,512 railroad officials employed last year were former Nazis. Half of Thuringia's high-school teachers were former members of the Nazi Party...