Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gasoline the pressure tightened. In 16 Eastern States OPA cut the value of A cards 25% to save 20,000 bbl. of gas a day, in the rest of the U.S. ordered rationing to save rubber, beginning Dec. 1. And in many places the people fumed in rebellion...
...Appointed retiring New York Governor Herbert H. Lehman as Director of Foreign Relief & Rehabilitation. To Humanitarian Lehman will fall the job of feeding and clothing people of Axis-conquered countries when they are liberated from their oppressors. His job knows no boundaries save those of the world. And since food has written more peace treaties than statesmen, it will shape the post-war world to a degree no man can yet foresee...
Barton also pointed out the shipments of blood plasma given by College students in September 1941 helped save many lives at Pearl Harbor after the disaster on December...
Next day, to save their voices, the Southern Senators changed their tactics: they stayed away in droves to prevent a quorum. Majority leader Alben W. Barkley, stubbornly determined to get action, got the Senate to order the arrest of eight missing members who were known to be in Washington. The sergeant at arms' staff routed Nevada's Senator Berkeley L. Bunker out of his office by using a passkey, captured Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar by inducing a chambermaid to unlock his hotel apartment. South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank, reached at his home by telephone...
Returning across a nearby body of water their precious rubber boat capsized. Cried one: "Damn the generals, save the boat." Most of their clothing and $18,000 in gold were lost. But they saved all the important papers, and, shivering, half-naked, they crept through woodlands to a secret rendezvous with an Allied ship...