Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today the U.S. owns 62% of the merchant tonnage of the world but still it does not rightly know how much of a merchant marine it wants to maintain after...
Credit and banking will be second in line for nationalization, Finer predicted. Inasmuch as it is now fully mobilized for war purposes, it will be easy for the Attlee cabinet to maintain public supervision and accomplish the transition from laissez-faire finance...
Rosee's story got to Wisconsin's silo-sized Frank Bateman Keefe. He reared up in the House and demanded a Congressional investigation of rye. What he wanted to know: why did Commodity Credit Corp. help maintain the corner in rye by purchasing between four and five million bushels of rye last March for export at prices ranging from $1.18½ to $1.29 a bu.? At the time, Argentine rye was available...
...Came Along (Hal Wallis-Paramount) almost justifies the people who "don't want to cry at the movies because there's enough sadness in the world already." Striving bravely, in the best tradition of air-corps romance, to maintain a gallant gaiety in the face of impending doom, the picture fails completely to realize that its tears are obviously glycerine, its poignance pointless, and its gloom only a studio fog obscuring what should be a wholly delightful comedy...
Head-Hunters & Glamor. Sir Charles who became a constitutional monarch in 1941, has found it even more difficult to maintain discipline over his glamorous family than over his head-hunting subjects. Despite his patient parental plaints that there are no legal princesses on Sarawak, his three daughters continue to be dubbed Princesses Gold, Baba and Pearl. Leonora Margaret (Princess Gold) pleased her father when she became the second wife of the late 2nd Earl of Inch-cape. Less pleased was the Raja when his daughter Elizabeth (Princess Pearl) married Jazz Bandleader Harry Roy, and his youngest daughter, Nancy Valerie (Princess...