Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record year), 4.012,000 in 1928. Confronted by an alarming decrease, prophets turned over their problem to statisticians, gave them a basic theory that 21 million cars would continue to roll the roads, asked what 1932's production must be to maintain that figure...
...most marked features in the inadequacy of the Infirmary is the lack of accommodations for the nurses and maids, many of whom are obliged to find rooms as best they can outside. This makes it impossible to maintain a proper supervision and protection...
...emphatic that comment upon it is superfluous. The final estimate of his legal achievements may safely be left to history, by those who prefer rather to recall the personal qualities which gave him his unique place in public esteem. More perhaps than any other man he has helped to maintain the historic dignity of the American bench...
...election, he was reported to have left for the South Seas in his private yacht, to hunt for flying fish. In one form or another, catching fish has always been Mr. Thompson's hobby. The once-mighty Capone is contemplating the stripes in his new suit, while his henchmen maintain bread-lines from the profit of their labors. The city has six hundred fifty thousand unemployed, and a financial Gordian knot which has yet to find its Alexander. Whatever its future may bring, history will record that in the decade which has just closed Chicago was preeminent for public vulgarity...
...natural reaction from abnormal war conditions. The price level rose rapidly during the war. Then followed an inflationary period when the credit of all nations was put to test and in most cases failed. During and after these times occurred an amazing attempt of the industrially advanced states to maintain exaggerated values in terms of money, upon the theory that prosperity depended upon high prices of finished products, securities, and land. At the same time improved processes of manufacture tended to force down the price level. But large doses of ballyhoo and misloading accounting managed to prevent the natural decline...