Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half miles of steel cable for lowering them all. Lest this cable break or tangle, an electric switch in the "bell" would disengage its prodigiously weighty lower shell, allowing the upper half and its occupants to bob upwards in safety. Three electrically driven propellers would maintain the "bell's" vertical suspension in this emergency...
...tariff. Germany, however, cannot go the way of general tariff reduction or even the entire removal of tariff barriers which perhaps alone would be sufficient to afford relief from the world's distress, as long as other countries which confront us with far greater economic and political power maintain a decided system of protective tariffs...
With the development of diamond output in the Belgian Congo and Portuguese Angola, however, this practice of stabilizing diamond prices became more and more difficult for the British interests to maintain. Additional trouble has resulted from social and political changes during and after the War in Europe, whereby many previously wealthy families have had their jewels confiscated or have been forced to sell them because of sudden poverty. Against these conditions a Londor syndicate has been struggling hard but with only partial success...
...Ford Motor Co. plans to connect the various large cities in the United States by airways and maintain a regular schedule of deliveries. These cities will include New York, Buffalo, Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Indianapolis and others...
...proposed and are not being forced upon the workers in other industries. . . . Existing economic facts make their position unjustifiable and indefensible. . . . How can the workers in the textile industry sustain a reduced purchasing power through the imposition of a substantial reduction in wages and at the same time maintain and enjoy a standard of living commensurate with American citizenship? . . . The reprehensible feature of it is that it is a forced reduction in wages. The workers have not been consulted regarding acceptance or rejection. It is a reduction in wages that has been imposed and enforced in spite of the opposition...