Word: retained
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This would place the air force on an equal basis with the other services, although the Navy would retain its carrier-based air arm. Purpose of the merger: to eliminate duplication and inefficiency...
...primaries in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina, Arkansas " and Georgia. During the past 17 years, usually with prodding by the N.A.A.C.P., the U.S. Supreme Court has passed on four cases designed to abolish "white supremacy" in Southern voting. Three times the determined South has been able to retain its white poll supremacy. In last week's ruling, the fourth, the Court said: Dr. Lonnie E. Smith, Negro dentist of Houston, must be allowed to vote in Texas' Democratic primaries. Hastily, the South's best legal minds went to work with the frank, unabashed intention...
Despite those upsets the Company A and Lowell teams still retain their respective leads. In the House league the Lowell team is closely followed by the Funsters, who still have a slight opportunity to win by triumphing in their next two games. With four losses the Adams men are completely out of the reckoning...
...grandfather rights" on applications for transatlantic routes to Lisbon and the Mediterranean. The deal enabled American Export Lines Inc. to dispose of its control of Amex-which it had to do, under the CAB ruling that ocean carriers are not permitted to operate air routes. But Export Steamship will retain 24% of the airline stock, will probably act as the airline's agents abroad...
...that finally sucked Mrs. Rosenberg into Washington is highly charged politically. She will have umpteen Washington agencies plus 20,000,000 servicemen and warworkers to cope with. Her boss, Brigadier General Hines, will retain his 21-year-old job as Veterans Administrator. The General is not quite what Bernard Baruch prescribed in his Reconversion Report, "of such outstanding caliber as to command the immediate confidence of the country," but he is an iron-willed, Army-trained administrator of the Old School. The gap between their social philosophies is at least as wide as the difference between their ages (21 years...