Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senate Southerners, accustomed to using the unlimited-debate rule to talk civil rights measures to death, got a bitter taste of their own by-the-rules medicine. Dusting off a rules paragraph that had lain idle for a decade, Senate Republicans used it last week to save the Administration's civil rights bill from the strangling clutches of the powerful Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's James 0. Eastland...
United Press service also demands a philosophical disposition, for its low pay scale and tightwad expense accounts are legendary. During a national political convention in Chicago, longtime Bureaus Supervisor L. B. ("Save a Nickel") Mickel cut down on expense accounts so sharply that General News Manager Earl Johnson told his men to retaliate by signing all their hotel meal checks with Mickel's name; Mickel was barely able to leave town. A sardonic example of U.P. tightfistedness was an exchange one day between Atlanta, the U.P.'s southern division relay point, and Raleigh, N.C., where a staffer...
...later suffered an infection or traumatic injury of his one good kidney. Leonard readily volunteered to undergo this risk. Added Psychiatrist Christopher Standish: "If this operation is not performed. Leonard will suffer a severe emotional jolt. He will realize that it had been within his power to save his brother's life...
...buses, now up to 65 million. The new roads will ease present congestion, be able to accommodate the nearly 90 million vehicles that are expected to speed over U.S. roads by 1972. With fewer curves, no crossroads and a wide center strip, the super system is expected to save 3,500 lives annually, reduce accident costs by $725 million, save commercial operators another $825 million by cutting delay, fuel waste, tire and brake wear. It will be designed for safe speeds of up to 70 m.p.h. (today's average highway speeds: passenger cars 51, trucks 46, buses 52). Motorists...
Despite their drain on the contractor's pocket, the machines that cost as much as $100,000 apiece save plenty of money in the long run. Contractors can get 66% more work with the same labor force as only nine years ago. Today's machine operator is a specialist who may make up to $15,000 a year, and it costs little more to have him operate a larger machine that can do more work. Since the average machine pays for itself long before wearing out, contractors figure they can afford $30,000 in new equipment to eliminate...