Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trees, cultivated on the contour, tilled scientifically to stop wind erosion, and left soil-holding trash on their land. Drawing on ingenuity and junk piles, local blacksmiths had turned out terracing machines during the war. A reasonable rain or snow would nail down the soil for the year, and save the wheat...
...Catholic World summarized the U.S. bishops' pastoral letter: "The hierarchy . . . share the conviction that American political institutions are in advance of those of Europe in helping a man to save his soul. . . ." Archbishop John Ireland of St. Paul was more truculent: "An honest ballot and social decorum will do more for God's glory and the salvation of souls than midnight flagellations or Compestellan pilgrimages...
James M. O'Neil '49 and Chris T. Mahan, Jr. '49, originators of the petition, claim that many students would thereby save from $2.50 to $3.00 a week. Petitions are being posted in ten halls in the Yard, with slgnees numbering up to 60 percent in one entry as an outcome of the first week of the campaign...
...prewar market-e.g., Brazil, which once imported cotton, was forced to increase its planting till it is now an exporter. Other onetime customers of the U.S. may not buy either, because they: 1) cannot buy without U.S. loans; 2) would rather buy in non-U.S. markets, thus save what dollars they have; 3) would rather use rayon made from their own forests...
...save King Cotton from the grave politicians have dug, the U.S. is now trying to reach an agreement with other cotton-producing countries to set prices and production quotas. In this way it hopes that the mountainous world carryover can be absorbed eventually and everybody, including the U.S., be guaranteed a share of the world market. If the international agreement is signed, the South will have to either: 1) mechanize cotton growing so that it can be done much cheaper, or 2) grow much less cotton. The simple way of legislative price fixing seems doomed by postwar cotton economics...