Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a delay of nearly a month, a night watchman was assigned to Wigglesworth Hall last week in order to maintain the parietal regulations there as they are maintained in the Houses...
...main and most controversial method for cutting production is flexible price supports. This Republican proposal would lower price supports, encouraging if not forcing farmers to reduce the supply and thus drive the price up again. Democrats maintain that under flexible supports, as profits go down, farmers try to earn more by producing more, not less. Recent statistics would seem to support the Republicans. Under flexible supports, the surplus was reduced from $8.9 billion to $8.1 from January to July of this year. In the third quarter of 1956, net farm income went up for the first time since...
...enclosed tag is returned, with the information requested, under the strongest possible protest. I refuse to acknowledge it as a validly authorized or validly issued parking ticket, and I maintain that as far as my record of parking violations is concerned, I have incurred none and my record is clear...
...partial free-trade area would have no common tariff against outside nations, and even between member nations certain goods would still be subject to tariff. Under such an arrangement the British could exchange manufactured goods tariff-free with the rest of Europe, but would still be able to maintain imperial preference on food, fodder, drink and tobacco-goods which make up a substantial chunk of Commonwealth exports to Britain...
Defense Dogma. What about the industry that insists that it is vital to national defense? The watch manufacturers won tariff increases up to 50% in 1954 on the argument that the U.S. has to maintain at least 4,000 watchmakers to turn out military timing devices in case of war. Yet Bidwell found that domestic production of sensitive jeweled watches continued to slump even after the tariff rise, and "it is doubtful whether the present level of import duties will guarantee that watches will be produced at a level which defense authorities would consider adequate." In any case, he said...