Word: conservee
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The British Government put on the Stevenson restriction plan to conserve the supply of rubber and to save their planters from bankruptcy. It was not done to gouge American manufacturers, for British manufacturers as well were affected by it.
The other products listed in the resolution are or may be controlled in similar ways by various foreign countries. Brazil is protecting her coffee growers. Canada is talking of an export embargo on pulpwood to conserve her timber, etc. But at the present time rubber is the outstanding case.
And M. Caillaux, weary, hoarse, replied: "I see before me, a lot of men occupying prominent situations. I am so confused I hope they will conserve of me the same memories I have of them. . . .
The man who protests against this arbitrary protection from the force of new ideas fails to realize that that is the only way to maintain freedom of speech. There is not very much free speech left in this country as it the best way to conserve the available supply is...
1) WHEREAS, the present method of producing oil is wasteful because it is impossible to conserve oil in the ground if a neighbor desires to take oil from his property;