Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spirited, so Giuseppe and Pasquale are portrayed as human beings who are gradually twisted by poverty and the demoralized period in which they are caught. Their's is the simple morality of friendship that does not permit "squealing." But even that is swept away when Pasquale--thinking he would save Giuseppe from being whipped--tells that Giuseppe's brother was involved in black-market dealings...
...Professor Slichter said, "The $40 cost of living tax credit would give people more money to spend. Industry is already producing at capacity. Consequently, if people spend their money for goods, they would simply bid up the cost of living. They would lose in higher prices what they would save in taxes...
...against the abortive 1944 Warsaw uprising which caused the Germans to destroy the city. Poles were not likely to forget that Moscow had also denounced Bor's uprising, after Radio Moscow called for it, and that the Red Army only a few miles away had not moved to save Bor from the Germans...
Victor Emmanuel, in a last effort to save his line, decided to abdicate in favor of Umberto. Wearily, he penned his abdication, got the date wrong, corrected it, and paid a notary a 129-lire (15?) fee to register the document. Queen Elena cried. By this time, Italy's politicians professed not to care what he was doing or what his plans were; informed of the impending abdication, Premier Alcide de Gasperi said: "It's not even fourth or fifth on my list of matters of importance...
...winning most of the fights he got into, Tulsa Oilman William Grove Skelly built one of the nation's best-integrated, best-run independents. Nevertheless, his Skelly Oil Co. almost went under in the lean-pursed '30s. Hard-hitting, fast-thinking Bill Skelly raised the cash to save the company, but he lost control to J. Paul Getty, sporty Los Angeles oilman and Manhattan hotel owner (the Pierre). Skelly, staying on as president of his company, a subsidiary of Getty's Mission Corp., in time became Mission's president also...