Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover program opens the Government air mail routes to commercial and private aviators. The Department of Commerce will have additional illumination and landing facilities on the two chief routes within six months, so that postal contracts can be turned over to private concerns to enable them to maintain a more extensive freight and passenger service. The two airways to be immediately developed...
...which some live ad agency's copy writer has caught TIME'S style. His production of snappy copy has averaged as well if not better than any issue of TIME. You will be frank to admit, I am sure, that not all of your staff members can maintain the swift pace set for them by the master author of TIME'S unique manner of expression. You are fortunate in having this series in the hands of one who could take his place among your capable group of reporters without your readers ever missing a bit of your...
General Motors earned $93,285,674, or $17.33 a share, in six months; could declare a 50% stock dividend and still maintain $7 dividends. William Crapo Durant, deposed G. M. founder, gleaned some $12,000,000 from recent toying with its stock. Its stock passed $200 a share. Thomas Cochran, Morgan partner, was almost incredibly reported to have broken his firm's silence by saying it "should and will" sell 100 points higher...
...attempt the raising. No diving could be done. The FALCON (salvage tug) had to be moored with her bow over the stern of the S-51 to enable her to stay in position long enough to boost the pontoons sufficiently to make up for the overnight leakage and to maintain them "as they were" until the wind and sea should moderate. The bow pontoons had not yet been boosted when the bow was found to be coming...
Since last year's "freak" Canadian election (TIME, Nov 9) Premier King's 101 Liberal supporters, augmented by a perpetually fluctuating contingent of the 25 Progressives, have barely sufficed him to maintain a Parliamentary majority against the 116 conservative, M. P.'s led by former Premier Arthur Meighen...