Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco had an uproar over Mayor Roger Lapham's proposal to scuttle the famed cable cars which have clanged up & down the city's steep hills since 1873. Riders, jolting on the hard, wooden seats, clinging perilously to the outside steps, voted 9-to-1 to save their wornout conveyances. The Women's Chamber of Commerce called an "emergency" meeting. Mayor Lapham, who had already ordered ten specially powered buses, grunted: "Sentimentalists do not have to pay the bills...
...controlled trading, the malignancy which grew out of totalitarianism and two world wars. From Russia it now has spread over Eastern Europe, its economic virulence taking possession of politics and morals as well. It is the disease which destroys free enterprise. Clayton is convinced that the only way to save free enterprise is to win world trade agreements at Geneva, even at the expense of sweeping concessions...
What would save Britain from the threats of inflation and bankruptcy? The White Paper offered one familiar generality: increased production. But there was a new note in the White Paper's theme. Increased production would have to be achieved without increasing costs, i.e., wages...
...that Britain has sold too little in the "hard money" markets (only about 14% of her exports), while buying heavily (about half of her imports) in those markets. A sore point in her U.S. buying: prices went up about 31% in 1946. That is why Sir Stafford keeps urging: "Save dollars...
Fortunately, though he can't quite save the day, Cuckoo Clark notably brightens the evening. Hurling himself headlong into any role he can find a costume for -monk, chancellor, Foreign Legionnaire, laundress-Bobby leers at the actresses, spits on the plot, and keeps hurrying nowhere...