Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lent as a revolving fund to farmers' cooperatives to aid them in solving their crop surplus problems. The Haugen bill (opposed by the Administration, demanded by many farm interests), carries a fund of $375,000,000, which contemplates Government purchase of farm surpluses in emergency to maintain domestic prices, and will impose (after two years) a tax on farm products to provide for losses in the use of the fund...
...would like to see a correction made in a statement in TIME [April 19, p. 7] concerning General Wood. He was not born in "a small Massachusetts seacoast town" but in Winchester, N. H. TIME is a very valuable paper and I hope it will maintain a high standard of accuracy...
...Governor has power to do just one thing and that is to invade the strike zone with the armed forces of the state and, obviously, this should only be done where the disorder amounts to rioting and bloodshed and the local authorities are unable to maintain law and order. Such action would, of course, mean the end of the strike, and as far as the strikers are concerned the loss of their cause...
...Secretary Jardine nodded. Mr. Tincher has a bill which would create a Federal Farm Board and endow it with the use of $100,000,000 until 1950. This board would lend its funds to farmers' cooperatives, which would buy and hold the farm surplus so as to maintain farm prices whenever there was an excessive crop. The Administration was willing to indorse this bill, saying that it did not put the government in business...
...Tincher bill, but it would go further: it would endow the board with $350,000,000 instead of $100,000,000. and provide that if the farmers' co-operatives were unable to cope with the surplus problem, the board itself could buy grain or other produce to maintain domestic prices at the world price plus the tariff. Also, after two years, the coffers of the board would be annually replenished by an "equalization fee," a kind of tax collected by the government on all produce sold, the revenue from which would pay for any losses taken in disposing...