Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once the President could let himself go at mealtime. His mother had driven over from Grandview for dinner at the Truman house, so he would not have to save room for a second meal at her house. A third dinner he had faced last year turned out this time to be just a snack, with his aunt, Mrs. John T. Noland...
...usual question-"Are you going to make any New Year's resolutions?"-Tireless Pollster George Gallup got the usual answers. The most popular resolutions: 1) to save more money, 2) improve my character, 3) improve my disposition. No. 9: quit drinking...
...Meyer Berger found George Teese, a New York Central engineer who owns a 1937 Packard, at home in Harmon on Hudson, N. Y.: "George and his wife, Rita, have a centrally heated, spotless, well-furnished six-room apartment. The Teeses don't save much . . . with prices as they are, but they live well ... a roast every day since the meat shortage ended. This year George has averaged about $600 a month. 'It's a strain, usually 16 hours a day, but a man would be a fool or a loafer not to get it while...
Federal Reserve (Nov.). In East Weymouth, Mass., Sam Schofield bought 64 bars of Army surplus soap, each stamped: "Save Soap to Win the War. (Signed) Commander in Chief, Abraham Lincoln...
...still determined to break the strike until he faced a committee of employes across a conference table. He told them that he opposed unions because they limited production. They answered with a flood of suggestions for increasing production by eliminating inefficiencies. Said Buchsbaum: "I could see how I could save thousands of dollars. . . . They had my interests at heart - as well as their own." In a flush of enthusiasm he granted the union the checkoff, a 5?-an-hour wage increase, and the right to examine the company's books...