Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about the treacherous, 110-mile channel from the port to the Gulf. New Orleans would like Congress to appropriate $82 million to build a 62½-mile tidewater ship canal from New Orleans straight east to the Gulf. Such a canal would be free from silt and cheap to maintain. If "U.S. engineers approve, it will be up to Congress...
During the forecasted period of prosperity, Slichter warned that the United States can expect an annual price rise of 20 to 80 percent. Technological advances will be unable to keep pace with demands for wage boosts, and industry will maintain its profit margin by smelling prices...
...indefinitely. Mr. Stalin and the American Secretary of State have said that a compromise will be reached; but from the Russian point of view, the later, the better. If the Russian expectation of an economic crisis in the United States is fulfilled, this nation will be hard pressed to maintain its occupation troops in Europe, and Russia's bargaining power will be enormously increased...
...chief failure of the play, however, was in the individual performances. The general run achieved a wooden mediocrity which broke the back of any attempt to maintain the professional illusion which has characterized recent HDC and other local efforts. Others were more objectionable: Walter Frank completely misplayed Joxer, making him a large and boisterous knave instead of the small, whining rogue he is; and Robert Lubchansky was oily to an unpleasant extreme as Bentham...
...announcement left Harvard the only one of the Big Three to maintain its prewar tuition rates, since Yale announced a $100 raise last January, bringing its tuition...