Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general strike. He said the union would secure the recall of Mayor Frank Couzens (son of the late Senator James Couzens). Mayor Couzens yielded, got the union to defer the mass meeting till 5:45, advised firms in the office buildings on Cadillac Square to dismiss their workers early. Save for groups of strikers trooping to their rendezvous, the heart of Detroit was almost deserted at rush hour...
...military court of inquiry appointed by Governor Allred got busy to try to find out the disaster's cause. Twelve sticks of dynamite discovered in the ruins caused a momentary stir. Superintendent Shaw revealed that "to save about $250 or $350 a month" a connection had been installed by the school janitor to take natural gas from the nearby waste line of the Parade Oil Co., pipe it through the basement to the radiators. Parade officials denied they had given the school permission to make the connection. Mr. Shaw replied that the oil company did not "particularly object...
...approve a timely bit of financial thrift in the form of a $45,000,000 preferred stock issue. Part of the money will be used for expansion, including a rolling mill in Australia, the rest for retirement of outstanding bonds and old preferred stock. The refunding will probably save the company something in money costs and leave it in that rare position, a steel company virtually free of funded debt...
...less." Forthwith the Governors ordered PPX suspended from trading. In subsequent over-the-country trading PPX promptly plummeted to 37? per share. It was one of the few times in the history of the Exchange that the Governors on their own initiative had stricken a stock from trading to save suckers from their own folly...
...governmentally sponsored "farm", where, it is universally agreed, nothing obtains but the basest of slavery. So the youths rise in arms. Their actions are not youthful or particularly appropriate to any stage of human life for that matter, and their speech, nothing if not funny, is not even that save in two or three eminent instances. But the exuberance is there in full measure; it and several lilting tunes save the show from the doldrums, and make it more than passably pleasant...