Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government which had bet wrong on a shortage in coal might not also bet wrong on a shortage in dollars. Would Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton suddenly appear in Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell's calamitous role? Or would the Government, now alert to dangers, try to save dollars by restrictions on such comparative luxuries as U.S. cigarets, Hollywood films, Texas grapefruit and dried eggs...
...Wanted for Murder," a British film, starring Eric Portman and Duleic Gray, is a Jekyll and Hyde story of a young, wealthy Englishman who strangled his feminine companions to death. At first befuddled, Scotland Yard finally arrives to save the life of the sixth victim...
...British press was deluged with letters protesting the speedy way that culture had been dumped out the window when cold came in the door. To save power during the coal crisis, the BBC had consolidated the popular Light (comedy-variety) and Home (slightly more serious) broadcasting programs. The cultural Third Program, which had a listener-audience of only about two million, was quietly done...
...Presumably, men are missing a bet, for nature intended the magic scent as something to drive females wild. If modern men could be convinced of this principle (as they were when Mohamed wrote of panting and of bliss) a great new market would boom the perfume industry. Chemists, to save the little male musk deer, would have to work harder and faster...
...poor Punch, but the letters column in the London Times was full of protests (from Anthony Eden, among others) at the suspension of the New Statesman, Spectator (missing an issue for the first time in 118 years), Economist, Tribune, Time & Tide. If the Government wanted to save power, asked one critic, why not shut down that high-powered thrillmonger (circ. 7,500,000), the Sunday News of the World? The five weeklies, which do much to mold British intellectual opinion, were forbidden such makeshifts as mimeographed sheets...