Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would depress the market for raw cotton as British orders were curtailed. 2) Only a long Lancashire strike would boom the U. S. cotton textile trade. Reason: the British mills have reserve stocks of the type of high class cotton cloth competitively manufactured in the U. S. and can maintain their position in this class of goods for some weeks or months. 3) Germany and Japan, producers of cheapest cotton cloth, will be in a much stronger position to grab what Lancashire loses of this business?and the bulk of Lancashire cloth has long been of the cheaper grades...
...Once liquor has paid the excise, it is as free as other legal commodities ... for exportation." "...Our citizens would be corrupted [if export liquor were outlawed] the traffic would be diffused. . . . The Canadian law would be violated and the duty would be laid on the Government of Canada to maintain a greatly augmented preventive force and punish the violation of ... a law which, after all, would only be enacted to assist in the enforcement of the law of a foreign country...
...eastward across the Atlantic and Eurasia as far as Tokyo. Their fame helped set them up in business at Detroit as the Schlee-Brock Aircraft Corp. sales agents. Last week at Detroit, Flyer Schlee was turning over a plane propeller by hand, to start the motor. He failed to maintain the gingerliness essential for handstarting a plane motor. His motor did not start. The propeller kicked back, struck him, tore flesh, broke an arm bone, concussed his brain. Detroit surgeons found that he had a fair chance to live...
...doubt, as far as each individual department of the college is concerned. The examinations determine accurately enough who in each field should fail, and who should be passed. But does the system work well for the various departments considered as a unit and called Harvard College? This, I maintain, it does...
...Harvard, Yale, Columbia. Princeton, New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Chicago Musical College, Cincinnati College of Music, Ann Arbor School of Music (University of Michigan). The terms of bequest are similar. The money may be used for one or more of these purposes outlined in the will: to maintain a chair or chairs of music, musical history, or musical esthetics; to maintain scholarships or fellowships in music; to give public performances; to do anything-musical...