Word: conservee
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A successful civilian goods strategy calls for two decisions: 1) on how much production of civilian goods is essential (not how much can be afforded-only the essential can now be afforded); 2) on concentration of that production in a few factories to conserve manpower and machinery for the war...
Damn it, men, things are in a hell of a fix and a tough job's got to be done, he said in substance after Franklin Roosevelt and Donald Nelson named him tsar to produce and conserve rubber. The actual words are the ones the hardboiled, red-faced, Irish...
To conserve rubber the committee laid down hard and fast rules for all car owners in the U.S., strongly urged that the President put them in effect at once.
In Camden, N.J., the heating problem was not so simple; the board of education decided to close all city schools during January and February to conserve fuel oil.
To the layman this panacea also has pitfalls. For one thing, the services themselves have scarcely begun to show any real understanding of how to conserve scarce materials or how to use them to the best advantage. But the least encouraging aspect of this new solution is that, like all...