Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeared from all the investigations that I have been able to make that the farmers as a whole are determined to maintain the independence of their business. They do not wish to have meddling on the part of the government. They are showing a very commendable skill in organizing themselves to transact their own business through cooperative marketing, which will this year turn over about $2,500,000,000, or nearly one-fifth of the total agricultural business. The Department of Agriculture should be strengthened in order to be able to respond when these marketing associations want help...
...Here our obvious general policy should be to maintain our naval aviation in due relation to the fleet. Our national policy calls for the establishment of the air strength of our army primarily as an agency of defense...
...aircraft industry, production should be stimulated by letting standard contracts for two or three years for the bulk of the Government's needs, and small contracts on liberal terms should be made with firms which maintain competent staffs of designers, in order to encourage improvements in design...
This committee is a regularly organized activity, maintaining offices the year round. Its work is necessary if the university is to maintain its present position in intercollegiate athletics. Through its work, which last year was concentrated...
...championship teams in place of the present award, has in its favor the success of a similar practice at Yale and other universities, as well as the obvious fairness of special recognition of successful teams by the University. It is well known that many sports which at Harvard maintain a tenuous existence at best, flourish in other places. At most of these institutions some such plan as that suggested here is in effect. Whether or not there is any connection between these two facts, it will be the new committee's duty to consider...