Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...pointed out the distinction between "undernourishment, or deficiency in calorie intake, and malnutrition, or deficiency in proteins, vitamins, and minerals," remarking that the more vital problem is to maintain the quality of the national diet, especially in regard to vitamin content, in order to "promote vigor, resistance to disease, and a high morale...
...other side of the musical fence stand the networks, arguing that ASCAP has already dug too deeply into radio's coffers and now seeks only to pursue its advantage. Furthermore, they say charges should be made upon the music presented, with no fee blanketing all sponsored broadcasts. Radio men maintain that the absence of ASCAP music will be amply taken over by the offerings of BMI composers and arrangers, supplying tunes from the pens of artists from Bach and Beethoven to Bob Crosby...
...complete, the fourth surprise had taken place. A British Army of 400,000 men, all but surrounded in Flanders, succeeded in effecting its escape by sea from Dunkirk-explained by dogged British courage, the reckless brilliance of British seamanship, and the ability of the Royal Air Force to maintain local command of the air. The fifth surprise took place no one knew exactly when-when Hitler found his forces unable to undertake a direct assault last summer on Britain herself. The explanation has never been completely given, but it included as its chief ingredients the ability...
...consolation, knowing that it would not be long before the costs of defense would reduce the U. S. standard of living. For the Canadians were facing one of the hard realities of life, that a people have to pay dearly for their independence whether they fight for it or maintain it without fighting...
More acute than temporary inconveniences was the problem of permanent housing. The present weekly payroll is $4000,000, but Du Pont, in charge of the Government's operations, expects to expand the construction crew to over 10,000 within a month, and eventually maintain an operating personnel of a few thousand less. Charlestown realtors looked hungrily for a housing boom. But fortnight ago Indiana Defense Coordinator Henry B. Steeg announced that the Government's powder plant will not be converted to peacetime industry once the defense effort is over; it will be closed. So Government agencies shied from...