Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barely been swept from U.S. streets when Georgia's tax-conscious Senator Walter F. George said a mouthful: taxes should now be substantially reduced-"effective on 1946 incomes, regardless of the status of the war against Japan. Otherwise, we can't make the turn to peace and maintain a high level of production...
...Army will be reduced. To provide "all the strength we believe we can deploy effectively against Japan," and to maintain training and supply in the U.S., the War Department plans to get down to a strength of 7,000,000 by year's end. Some 400,000 of these will be employed as occupation troops, serving in the newly activated Fifteenth Army of Lieut. Gen eral Leonard T. Gerow...
Responsibility for maintaining the peace in the Pacific will rest largely with the U.S. The U.S. Army & Navy cannot undertake to maintain the peace without bases stretching far out into that vast ocean. At the same time, much of the world looks to the U.S. for leadership in the development of the "trusteeship" principle for colonial areas...
Highpoint meat, butter, canned fruit and other hard-to-get items were scratched from P.O.W. menus. Substitutes: beef hearts, liver, low-grade cuts for stew (twice a week), margarine (once a day), stewed fruit, more spaghetti, more bread to maintain a calorie count equal to the standard U.S. Army garrison ration...
...course, we, the circle of German physicians at Kiev, were aware of the importance of this job. Aside from certain devious phases of this action I still maintain that, just as one prunes a tree-by removing old, undesirable branches in the spring, so for its own interest a certain hygienical supervision of the body of a people is necessary from time to time...