Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hubbub caused by steel and coal strikes during recent weeks has obscured what may very well be the deciding factor in the negotiations still ahead; the delicate political position of Philip Murray as he attempts both to reach a settlement with the steel industry and maintain his leadership of the brawling...
...local farmer moved a barn onto his place just south of Massachusetts Avenue, neatly eclipsing the top of Blue Hill, which the observatory was using for a transit sight. The University finally had to buy a right of way in the roof and chop a hole through it to maintain the sight...
Other patients treated at the School and in Los Angeles by the three respirators so far constructed, have been able to maintain regular breathing for sustained period...
...came when Dr. T. F. Tsiang, representing Nationalist China's crumbling government, rose to speak. Said he: "During the past two years, while the dike from the Persian Gulf to Scandinavia was built against the flood of Communism, the Far East has been inundated . . . Can the United Nations maintain its prestige . . . by ignoring what has taken place in my country? . . . I appeal to the General Assembly to be brave enough to embrace the vision of one indivisible world and not to retreat to the false illusory security of half a world...
...such solution is in sight for eggs. To maintain the market for shell eggs, CCC offered to buy dried eggs at $1.27 a Ib. This was such a handsome price that CCC had to buy nearly 30 million Ibs. of dried eggs. Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan is afraid the total cost may run to $200 million. Despite the enormous surplus, wholesale prices this month were the highest in a quarter century. Mourned Brannan: "The prospects for the year ahead are still more discouraging...