Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land is the Agriculture Act of 1947. Proposed by the Labor government in the austerity days of pressing food shortages and trade deficits, it offered the farmers a bargain: "guaranteed prices and assured markets" in exchange for an obligation to maintain certain standards of production. The law set up in each county Agricultural Executive Committees (A.E.C.) composed of twelve farmers, who were charged with overseeing all the farmers within their jurisdiction, with the right to inspect whenever they chose, to prowl through barns and fields, to impose advice, and if dissatisfied, to evict those who failed to meet their standards...
...wrote, the percentage fell below 30, and B pictures increased. State censorship boards have been greatly weakened by recent Supreme Court decisions the films may not be banned on general charges of immorality or sacrilegiousness. "The Legion of Decency must therefore bear a heavier load in the struggle to maintain propriety . . . It is not enough for Catholics to be on guard against personal mortal sin. They must be alert to the social aspects of motion picture morality...
...from its long slide, pushed stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial averages to 480.63 by week's end, winning back 8.14 points and 36% of the previous week's loss. With the prospect of a further easing of credit if necessary, home builders expected at least to maintain their current rate of 1,100.000 houses annually v. 1.300,000 in 1955, perhaps even step up building a notch or two. Commerce Department figures for April also showed that while overall wholesale trade declined 3% in April, it was still 8% above the comparable month of 1955; nondurable goods...
Like Egypt's Nasser, who also got himself promoted through a free officers' group, Abu Nuwar is an anti-Communist who believes in "using" Moscow both economically and diplomatically. But his first public statement in his new job was a wish to maintain close ties with Britain and to refuse Egypt's offers to join the Arab neutralist bloc. Much as the mili tants among the refugees want to make common cause with Nasser, young King Hussein the Hashemite seems eager to keep his country out of Nasser's embrace...
...Behn relaxed his iron grip on the company, resigned as president in 1948. Following record 1955 sales of $448 million, I.T. & T. in the first quarter of 1956 reported a 6% jump in earnings per share over the same period last year, landed contracts to man and maintain the Air Force's radar Dew line in the arctic and the "White Alice" system in Alaska...