Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year in salary, $25,000 a year tax-free for expenses, the rent-free use of the 15-room Gracie Mansion, plus-five servants, a city car and chauffeur. The Senate job would bring him less than half of that: $22,500 a year plus small stipends to help maintain an office staff in Washington and a residence in New York...
...Indians a hedge against crop failure and inflation, save their foreign exchange and their funds for industrial development, and generally help to bolster the Indian economy. The agreement assures other free-world countries that they will not be deprived of Indian markets, provides India with enough purchasing power to maintain her normal imports of agricultural commodities from Canada, Denmark and New Zealand. As for the Indians, New Delhi was as cool and silent as Indian officials in the U.S. were vocally grateful. Proclaiming that the agreement would enable India to go ahead with its second five-year plan, Indian Minister...
National Defense. Both agree that the U.S. must continue to maintain a military establishment powerful enough to deter aggression. At issue: the Democrats charge the Administration has settled for "second best" defense; the Republicans believe the U.S. "has the strongest striking force in the world." The more specific Republican plank calls for a jet-powered, long-range Air Force, the most effective guided missiles, a modern Navy with a powerful air arm, an Army with unequaled mobility and firepower, and bases "strategically dispersed at home and around the world...
...raised salaries ("Teachers are the only occupational group whose real earnings have actually fallen since 1940") and changed its whole attitude toward a profession that is too often caricatured as made up of frustrated Our Miss Brookses. Meanwhile, "makeshifts" will have to do. We can only minimize the damage, maintain standards as best we can for the time being, and lay a foundation for future recovery. If we fail, the consequences will be disastrous...
...maintain we are strong. The only trouble is, we do not realize just how strong we are. When I try to analyze the elements of our strength, there are three main sources. The first is that we are a community of neighboring peoples...