Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas Beecham, a good if not great conductor, is a great instigator of orchestras. This week he conducted his sixth. His ready reason for the new venture: "There is no existing British orchestra of a high enough standard to maintain my reputation...
...provisional government should draft a federal constitution under the eyes of the Allied Control Council. He promised again: German industry would be restored. (Buried forever was the Morgenthau plan to reduce Germany to pastoral impotency.) War industries would be removed and eliminated, but Germany would be allowed to maintain "average European living standards...
Would Gonzalez' Communist pals force a change in Chilean foreign policy? No, answered Gonzalez. Chile would maintain its friendship with the U.S., would protect foreign capital and welcome more...
Some, especially businessmen, teachers, students, and returning servicemen, head for a quiet reading room on the mezzanine where bound and indexed volumes of all our magazines are available. Others write letters, read their home-town newspapers (of which we maintain a representative supply), examine the art and photographic displays, watch the latest issues of MARCH OF TIME cinema via movieola. This land-office business also involves giving information-from what Broadway show is really worth seeing to how to raise Muscovy ducks...
...general, businessmen found the reports reassuring, but they well knew that a high boil of production would be necessary to maintain earnings in the face of abnormally increased unit labor costs. The bad news (strikes and reconversion troubles) seemed-repeat seemed-to be a thing of the past. The big companies had enough war-accumulated reserves and tax credits this year to keep them on their feet. And when the basic industries got back to full production, other industries would be able to get the materials they needed to increase their own production...