Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paralyzed with a shot of a compound resembling curare. Summarizing 27 such experiments in the current New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers found that neither trained nor untrained operators using either the Schafer or Nielsen methods under field conditions could move enough air into a victim to maintain adequate oxygenation of his blood. Reason : a rescuer's hands are not free to keep the victim's chin up and ensure free air passage through his throat...
...electric-power equipment, while exports of the same equipment totalled nearly $840 million worth. But General Electric Co. contends that even these small imports "threaten to impair the national security," wants a Government limit on imports. G.E. argues that U.S. power equipment has "greater proven reliability," that foreign producers maintain insufficient repair facilities in the U.S., and wars or political upheavals "may interfere with delivery" of foreign equipment...
Stabbing the air with his fingers, shaping if like a symphony conductor, gaunt Johannes Strijdom lived up to his billing. "We Afrikaners," he thundered, "believe that God put us on the southern tip of the African continent to establish, build and maintain white civilization. We must destroy any move toward bastardization. For this reason the government has introduced apartheid [racial segregation] into every possible sphere." At the opposition United Party, which draws its support largely from South Africa's 1,200,000 citizens of British descent, Strijdom leveled a deadly charge: "They are imperialists more concerned with British interests...
...United Auto Workers aggressively presented their new wage demands to Ford and Chrysler last week, Detroit's worried automakers got some sound advice from Harvard University. Said Economist Sumner Slichter: "The auto companies would be wise to maintain a united front that would sooner or later lead to industry-wide bargaining...
...down. Without warning last week. Aluminium Ltd., Canada's giant producer, announced that it would cut prices 2? per Ib. to 24?, thus undercutting all free-world competition. No one was more surprised than the three dominant U.S. producers-Alcoa, Kaiser and Reynolds-who expected to maintain the price of primary aluminum at 26? per Ib., perhaps even raise it because of an impending wage hike. Yet within 24 hours, the top brass of each company hastily gathered, and one by one cut their price to 24? per Ib., announcing that "we will meet the competition...