Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Late. The Reds saw it coming, but they were demoralized by its suddenness and decisiveness. Communist Party orders were for them to stay and work within the C.I.O. In the last hours before Murray got down to business in Cleveland's big limestone convention hall, they tried to save themselves with pleas for forgiveness and promises to be good...
When Rutgers University needed to save some money during the war winter of 1941-42, a budget official had a bright idea: Why not fire Selman Waksman, an obscure Ukrainian-born microbiologist who was getting $4,620 a year for "playing around with microbes in the soil?" That sort of fun & games, the moneyman pointed out, had never really paid...
...supposedly dangerous drug on the patient. Within a few hours the infection was licked, and a few days later the fat farmer walked out, pain-free for the first time in years. Says Dr. Duncan: "There may not be many cases like this, but if we can save only one or two patients a year with a drug like neomycin, that drug has justified its existence...
...Assessors each year. That's one sources of excess intake in the Assessment Division. But, there is a further explicitly illegal way that the Assessors make money. By paying the price demanded, an owner could have his valuation cut down; even with exorbitant fees, the owners can still save enough to make the proposition worthwhile to them. about a month ago, the Little Building had its yearly tax could cut $300,000 on a dubious assessment rebate. Both Curley's strong opponents propose to eliminate this racket...
...campaign, Hynes has made no spectacular commitments. He knows that he cannot reduce the excessive tax rate at present because it is but an indication of a municipal disease that has roots far deeper than the Curley inefficiencies. But he has estimated, nor promised, that he can save the city $1,500,000 yearly; this figure implies a city payroll deduction and the end of the abatements racket...