Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late years have been too negligible for anyone to list. French quotas were enlarged on 44 U. S. products including fresh apples and pears, false teeth, leaf tobacco, canned salmon, logs & lumber, silk hosiery, automobiles, typewriters, radios, electric refrigerators, steam engines, circular saws, farm machinery. France promised to maintain the existing rates on such U. S. products as dried peaches, motion pictures, frozen salmon...
...treaty guaranteeing French rights in Ethiopia, notably the French railroad from Addis Ababa to Djibouti in French Somaliland.* Last week Italian soldiers were swarming all over this tidy French investment, giving orders to indignantly vociferous French engineers (see p. 23). Did Italy propose, M. Flandin asked, to maintain the "open door" in Ethiopia as France has done in French Morocco...
JOURNAL OF A YOUNG MAN-Martin Delaney-Vanguard ($2.50). Case study of poverty-ridden Greenwich Villagers in the pre-New Deal era, set down by a sensitive young Irishman who strives to maintain his integrity while Catholicism, Communism and a self-centred blonde struggle for his soul...
Yale and Harvard have too long a record of happy athletic relations to break down at this point. We feel assured that they will reconsider their disagreements carefully and maintain an enviable association on its previous inviolate plane. --Princetonian
Responding to "the evident determination of our government ... to maintain a navy second to none," the House committee also provided for twelve new destroyers, six submarines, 333 airplanes, upped the Navy's enlisted force from 93,500 to 100,000, the Marine Corps' from 16,000 to 17,000. Declaring Government building costs greater than those of private manufacturers, the committee proposed to limit Government aircraft construction to experimental engines, primary training planes. Notably missing from the bill was any provision for airships to replace the crashed Shenandoah, Akron and Macon...