Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation was treated last week to the unique sight of an Administration official really swinging an economy ax. Secretary Louis Johnson announced a cutback in Defense Department jobs which he thought would ultimately save the country $500 million a year...
...flailed nearly a fourth of the Florida peninsula, from Fort Lauderdale north to Melbourne and inland to the deep Everglades, the rich mucklands of Lake Okeechobee. The damage was tremendous ($40 million, according to one estimate), but the only fatality was a boy who drowned off Miami trying to save his sailboat...
...they would probably propose a larger British slice of the ECA pie for Europe, which OEEC is currently fighting over (see below); a freer hand in spending their ECA allotment; a cut in U.S. tariff duties on British goods, an easing of U.S. customs red tape, and permission to save dollars by discriminating more freely against certain imports from the U.S. (i.e., buying goods, instead, from America's competitors if they can furnish them more cheaply). Sir Stafford Cripps was still reported stubbornly opposed to devaluation of the pound, but there was growing feeling in Britain that devaluation, while...
Nagumo needed more impressive surroundings if the merry conversions were to continue. Said he to Shopkeeper Handa: "A truly religious person is ready to sacrifice his all to save other people's souls. Under the circumstances, it would be most noble on your part to sell your best clothing. Thus we shall be able to buy an altar...
...McCoys, Brother Against Brother, East Lynne, The Lure of the City. Recent audiences have been somewhat taken aback because 16-year-old Jack Fletcher, who performs as Hamlet, tries to play the role without gags. "Sometimes," he says, "I have to cut some of the soliloquies short to save my neck...