Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commander said he expected that the College would revert to the old program quickly after the demobilization. "The wartime set-up was created primarily to conform to the draft regulations by actually enlisting the men in the navy. We couldn't maintain our civilian training policy in the face of Selective Service...
...only solution would be to dissolve the Academy as an undergraduate institution and use the plant as a two-year postgraduate academy for welding together and molding the best material from N.R.O.T.C. into the career Naval officers whom we must have to maintain the peace...
...make its best contribution to the common problems," King continued. Then he made a pointed comparison: "The United States, in exporting less than 5% of its meat supplies, may be able to manage its program through 'set aside' orders without rationing, and still be able to maintain fair distribution and fair prices. ... In Canada we could not, without rationing, export between 40 and 50% of our federally inspected [one-third the total] kill and maintain orderly distribution and hold our ceiling prices...
...scholastic delinquents on varsity teams, no post-season games-in short, strictly antiseptic amateur football. Members are not required to play each other, and no formal championship will be at stake. Far from forming a league comparable to the Big Ten, the ivy-covered institutions were merely seeking to "maintain the value of the game while keeping it in fitting proportion to the main purposes of academic life...
...producers to maintain a $16-a-ton price throughout the depression. ¶ An electrical cartel managed to manipulate the radio-tube business in such a way that "until 1939, Canadian consumers were deprived of low-priced radio sets of a type which had been available in the U.S. for a considerable period." ¶When the U.S. General Electric Co. and the German Krupp interests made an agreement on the sale of cemented tungsten carbide (for machine tools), Canadian importers could buy it only from G.E., which raised the price from $50 a pound to $453. After the U.S. Government indicted...