Word: conservee
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The pastor in a Salem, Ore. church announced just before the sermon that a car had been left outside with its motor running. "Here is an opportunity for the owner to demonstrate his patriotism and conserve gasoline," he observed pleasantly, and read the license number. Governor Charles Arthur Sprague hustled...
Publisher Alvin Wiehle of the Washington Herald-Telegram writes with brutal candor. When a recent District of Columbia practice blackout flopped, Publisher Wiehle combed the District's hair with a sneering editorial headline: "A blackout? Nuts! A whiteout!" During the recent scrap drive he pressed his editorial trigger again...
> Britain's fast, agile, twin Rolls-Royce Mosquito bomber has a wingspread of 54 ft. (comparable to the U.S. P-38 fighter). It carries four 20-mm. cannon and four machine guns, is used largely for daylight raids. The plane's wooden fuselage, designed to conserve Britain'...
Without mentioning these figures, which make strange reading in other United Nations' capitals, the President told a press conference his opinion of the jam-packed shopping districts around Washington. Three-quarters of the display windows, he pointed out, were crammed with luxuries-just luxuries. If the merchants would only...
Last week, for instance, the OPA slashed the price of women's full-fashioned nylon stockings from around $2.95 to $1.65. A Manhattan department store was advertising rye whiskey at $2.29 per quart, and Scotch at $3.29 per fifth. Gasoline, which the citizen ought to conserve, is still offered...