Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japan itself, outside the general's own immediate circle, his entry into politics and the U.S. reaction created no great stir. MacArthur, acutely sensitive to criticism and impatient with opposition, has guarded his position as Japan's ruler by a tight censorship, designed to maintain his dignity, and thus the dignity of the U.S. As the first reaction to the candidacy began to filter back to Japan, the censorship was drawn tighter for both the Japanese press and U.S. Army publications...
...manufacturers, said he, even plan higher prices for next fall while business is relatively slow at both wholesale and retail levels. "Manufacturers frankly admit in many cases that they are not going to reduce prices until they have to, and that they would rather curtail production if necessary to maintain the present high level of prices. There is little evidence that manufacturers are trying to reduce costs or prices. This is the stuff out of which booms and busts are made...
...import food for civilians after May 15. And how would Jerusalem's 100,000 Jews get their fuel oil (which comes by pipeline across Arab lands) or water (which is pumped from .the wells of Ras el Ain in Jewish Palestine through Arab territory)? Who would run and maintain railroads, the postal system, telegraphs and ports, or patrol the borders against cholera-carriers...
...program-to complete the upper campus in "collegiate Gothic," the lower campus in modernistic glass-&-brick. Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is building a functional $15 million Illinois Institute of Technology in a tumbledown neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. CalTech needs $5,000,000 just to maintain the new telescope on Palomar Mountain...
Matthiessen, who spent three months in Czechoslovakia at the end of last year, declared that Masaryk's suicide would "make the balance between East and West immeasurably more difficulty to maintain...