Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Community Welfare. "We must distinguish between the welfare activities which the Church undertakes in its own name and those which it helps to inspire and maintain through the service of people who themselves are inspired by the Church. The second is more important...
...mobbed for making this suggestion. . . . But I still maintain that America has no better, no more intelligent friend than Charles A. Lindbergh. ... I want to nominate him as the Man of the Year...
...prepared list aside. "There is, however, something I want to say. ... I am here to serve my country. That country is Marshal Pétain incarnated. There is not any second France. There is only one. I have been delegated to command all French Africa. My mission is to maintain the unity of French Africa in itself and the unity of French Africa with the metropolis of France. Africa is one with France and General Weygand is one with Marshal Pétain...
...well that Hollywood is now considered the third largest news source in the U. S. More than 400 reporters, from matter-of-fact A. P. to Paul-Prying fan magazines, now scavenge Hollywood for tidbits to feed millions of readers. To keep them happy, Hollywood studios maintain vast publicity departments filled with smooth-writing ex-reporters, quick-smiling "contact men," expert photographers, menial flunkeys...
...last week. Repair Foreman Ernest Jones noticed a leak in one of the river-water pipes. He sent a gang of workmen to repair it. They found a little water oozing out of an old valve, plugged the leak. Then, according to department custom, they opened the valve, to maintain even pressure with 15,000 other valves in the system. Without knowing it, they had opened an old valve connecting the river water with the drinking water...