Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meetings with the press were not lively. Nobody brought up the subject of paper matches. Hearstling Bob Considine had written in a feature series that the President "won't permit three cigarets to be lighted on one match." Next day WPB asked the U.S. to save paper, forget this superstition...
...Rich, suave, 70-year-old Prince Stirbey was the longtime lover of the late Queen Marie of Rumania, the mortal foe of her moody son, ex-King Carol, the presumed father of her youngest daughter, Ileana.* Now the loyal aging go-between was embarked on one last attempt to save the trembling kingdom for his loved liege's grandson, young King Mihai...
...Though Sav-Way is strictly a war baby, Saffady is unworried about the future. He expects to boost his gross another $1,500,000 this year to $6,000,000; he also expects to cut his prices so his net will remain the same, and thus save him the bother of renegotiation. At war's end he expects most of his present business to vanish. Then he will simply riffle through his inventions, decide which ones can be made easily in his plants. He will farm out the rest. But he has no intention of expanding beyond his present...
...forests west of Moscow, in December 1941, the first big test came. By this time Voronov had already amassed a reserve-three field guns to the enemy's two; two mortars to the enemy's one. The road to Moscow lay clear before Hitler, save for a mob of armed Moscow workers and Voronov's guns. The workers fought, and died. Voronov's guns sent Hitler's armies reeling back...
...American Field Service, the organization which sends men, and ambulances to save G.I., Tommy, and Free French lives on the Italian and Burma fronts, has appealed to Harvard for volunteer ambulance drivers...