Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rollback victims unanimously contended that OPA's plans were both stupid and ruinous. Samples: the National Coffee Association pointed out that a 3?-a-lb. reduction in coffee prices would save the consumer a neat 36? in a whole year, while costing taxpayers $30,000,000 a year in subsidies. The meat industry pointed out that meat is so much more desirable than money that the above-ceiling black markets are flourishing...
...ignoring their ship' last moment, were clinging to the Spencer's ropes. The first taken aboard flopped on the deck, shivering uncontrollably in his wet clothes. Another merely clung to a line, moaning and making no effort to help himself. "Hold your water, bub, we'll save you," said a seaman, as he was lowered over the side to give a hand. From either side desolate, streaming figures were fished from the water. One gasped a weak "Heil Hitler" and an angry seaman threatened him with an oar. Wet, exhausted, stripped of their sodden clothes, they were...
...Sulfa drugs characteristically produce sudden drops in body temperature, but less spectacular penicillin, which may take weeks to save a life, usually reduces temperature by easy stages...
...many jobs must a free U.S. industry provide in the postwar world if it is to save itself...
...Glass-fiber yarns, once woven into decorative fabrics, are now limited to war uses only. Fireproof, rotproof and impervious to salt air, Fiberglas curtains Navy doorways to save weight and metal. Glass fabric is also used as a lampshade on million-candle-power reconnaissance flares to keep the glare out of observers' eyes and camera lenses...