Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Capitol Hill and elsewhere to get favored constituents home ahead of their time. One day, when a U.S. Senator brought in a friend to ask a favor, Holloway said in the lawyer's tone that Congressmen understood and admired: "I look to you, Senator, to help me maintain my probity." Holloway added afterward: "No Congressman ever failed to react to such a plea...
...included this paean: "The evolution of osteopathic principles shall be an ever-growing tribute to Andrew Taylor Still." The delegates voted (105 to 16) to drop this and to declare simply: "The objects of this association shall be to promote the public health, to encourage scientific research, and to maintain and improve high standards of medical education in osteopathic colleges...
...twelve weeks, Great Britain for four weeks. The industry has developed greater flexibility as a result of the valuable lessons learned during the Suez incident. A tanker shortage no longer exists; some 437 vessels totaling 7,000,000 deadweight tons are laid up in Western shipyards ready to maintain a flow of oil to any beleaguered nation...
...anticlerical press that the church gets a rake-off from Lourdes merchants, "there is absolutely no collusion between the bishop and the city." (The church's only income from the shrine: $500,000 yearly from Grotto collection boxes and sale of religious books, all used to maintain the buildings.) As for the pious objects, "we cannot suppress bad taste," said Father Gabel. "But we will advise against them, trusting that Lourdes businessmen, like film producers in America, will see the error of their ways...
...more than 3% of sales. Nevertheless, during fiscal 1957, the Board ruled they had made $33.6 million in excessive profits. Boeing has been ordered to give back $27.5 million (less tax credit), and lesser amounts are demanded from North American, Douglas, Lockheed and most of the others. The planemakers maintain that the Renegotiation Act is unconstitutional because it levies what amounts to a tax without a rate-and thus deprives the taxpayer of due process. The law provides no formula to measure excess profits. Instead, the board considers such items as the risk involved, the company's efficiency...