Word: save
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...known only to the Red Army command, is one of the factors which will determine the course and outcome of the winter's battles. And if worse comes to worst and the winter offensives fail, Joseph Stalin, Georgy Zhukov and the rest of the Red Army command will save enough of their reserves to try again...
American, British and French soldiers snapped to attention. A band played the Marseillaise, God Save the King, the Star-Spangled Banner. Slowly three men mounted the steps to the 30-ft. granite statue on the avenue Pasteur in Algiers. They laid wreaths of roses, chrysanthemums, carnations and tropical flowers on the slab supporting Lanowsky's figure of the Unknown Soldier. They saluted. Then they went off to lunch...
Many contracts, in which the saving of human lives was involved, have been blatantly broken by Harvard men in the past two months. 150 pints of blood, enough to save the lives of ten persons, were promised to the Red Cross Blood Bank in Boston. Yet, in the face of a critical shortage caused by the use of some 500 pints in the treatment of Cocoanut Grove victims, Harvard students have failed to take advantage of the best means yet offered to "do something" while waiting Army call...
Whipped Cream. U.S. citizens will get no more sundaes, pies or cakes topped with blobs of whipped cream. To save a billion quarts of milk needed more for butter, cheese and export in dried forms, WPB ordered all sales of heavy cream stopped last week...
...tanker full of aviation gasoline or a freighter full of strategic materials, the U.S. Government is now shipping to its allies entire plants to manufacture the goods on the spot. Though that may sound like a Gargantuan job for the overburdened U.S. Merchant Marine, actually such shipments can often save both space and time in the long run. Last week's news of factories being knocked down for shipment to the United Nations...