Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Casa Rosada, Argentina's White House, police had prepared sandbag barricades and machine-gun positions. To General Domingo Martinez, Buenos Aires Police Chief, President Castillo gave orders to defend the city. But when the troops marched in the police made it clear that they were acting "to maintain order only" -there was no resistance from them. By 10 o'clock, the President had fled his residence for the safety of the Drummond, where he stayed until the excitement was over. By 3 o'clock the machine guns at the Casa Rosada had disappeared; two hours later General...
...Look to Lockheed for leadership" is a slogan which zooming Lockheed Aircraft's President Robert Gross likes to underline in all his ads. Last week Bob Gross looked up from his billion-dollar backlog of fighters, bombers and Army transports long enough to announce a pioneering move to maintain Lockheed leadership in the postwar world: the purchase (for $3,750,000) of a controlling interest in the Pacific Finance Corp. of California...
...statesman who means to maintain peace (and yet not play power politics) "must with cold calculation organize and regulate the politics of power." This is no quotation from Goebbels but from Walter Lippmann.* In U.S. Foreign Policy, Mr. Lippmann devotes 177 pages to a lucid discussion of what has been right and what is now wrong in the U.S. notions of its place in the world...
...this week, must be paid for, and training over at Baker certainly shows that it is wise to pay for them as soon as possible. Deadline on Coop rebates for payments on khakis will be August 26th. Pay before then and you're getting outfitted at highly reduced rates. Maintain the account as a current liability and cost of fixed assets goes up ... or as we might have said two weeks ago much more simply. "Get it paid and you get it wholesale...
Before this there had been a failure of economic policy, not so fundamental as the failure to maintain peace, but just as disruptive of an international economic system. It was the failure of the U.S. to assume Britain's old role of lender to the world. Following World War I, it was taken for granted in banking circles that the U.S., now a leading creditor nation, would take on the job. Ambitious young Americans preparing for careers in finance spent a year or so after college in the City of London to pick up the British art and take...