Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quick to criticize this move were English businessmen, struggling to maintain the slow revival of British industry, for a higher rate means higher credit charges. On the other hand London bankers, nervous over the long and steady drain of gold from England, saw in the bank's announcement the only possible way of bolstering the gold reserve, down ?20,000,000 this year and now ?17,000,000 below the irreducible minimum of ?150,000,000, set by the Cunliffe Currency Commission...
...Larkin Co. at Buffalo; his best hotel the Imperial at Tokyo, famed for octagonal copper bathtubs and "skyscraper" furniture. People for whom he builds homes yield to his artistic bullying. His commissions-and therefrom the profits on which Frank Lloyd Wright, Inc. can count on-enable him to maintain offices at Chicago, Los Angeles, Tokyo...
...Inasmuch as the successful working of this agreement depends upon the strict observance of all rules herein contained, each club member shall consider it a matter of honor to maintain such rules...
...circumlocution that he considered the Anglo-U. S. figures for achieving parity somewhat too high. The policy of the Imperial Government at the Five Power Conference, he said, would be to urge slightly lower fleet tonnages for all concerned in all categories. Japan will ask to be allowed to maintain a cruiser fleet 70% as strong as that of either Britain or the U. S., will demand absolute parity with the major powers in submarines. Today under the famed 5-5-3 ratio of the Washington Conference Treaty limiting capital ships the proportionate strength of Japan in that class...
...think the size of TIME will matter so long as you maintain your present editorial policy of terseness. that It is not the number of pages, in my opinion, that counts, but it is the style in which the text is written. Keep that style and you are safe, and take all the advertising you can get. JOHN CONDON President The Condon Co., Inc. Tacoma, Wash. Sirs: I believe from the reader's standpoint TIME should not exceed 60 pages. THE PRATT & WHITNEY AIRCRAFT Co. Hartford, Conn...