Word: sustainment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Precisely the opposite is the effect. An adequate program of social security tends to put a floor under depression by helping to maintain the total flow of national income. The benefit payments made help to sustain the volume of mass consumption expenditures...
...Battle Lines. While the Senate might override the veto, experts expected the House to sustain the President. Even the greediest farm lobbyist knew that if the farmers took another grab, labor would shove up to the trough for its turn...
Supplies for the South. To sustain themselves the Allies have had to move supplies under heavy convoy across thousands of miles of ocean, and then over hundreds of miles of muddy mountain highways and desert trails...
...Government's normal bid-and-contract practice of buying commodities and services must give way to a system of allocations (used in the last war) that will avoid a multitude of priorities and sustain small business...
From the tests on Harvard and Yale students plus many more at Andover, Dr. Brouha has found good reason to believe that there is a fundamental physiological law which determines the ability of boys around 20 years of age to sustain and recover from hard work. The average of the College population at large here, irrespective of training conditions and based on the scores of the 2200 students, is 76, according to the scoring system of the test. This figure includes the June Freshmen who were the first full Class to be tested upon entering College. These Freshmen were tested...