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Word: savely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your solution: Give all the power to one bureaucrat! Let him hire and fire at his pleasure and save governmental dignity ! The board is at least democratic. Why not advise alcoholics to switch to dope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 19, 1955 | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

Barring Veteran Comic David Burns the cast is young, night-spotty, and largely new to Broadway, Pat Carroll, Jack Wakefield, Helen Halpin and Elaine Dunn should all have Broadway futures, but at the moment they can only enhance good material; they cannot save bad. What with undistinguished numbers and indistinguishable songs, a long-winded ballad about a killer and a dreadful adaptation of O Henry's Gift of the Magi, Catch a Mar! only intermittently catches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Sep. 19, 1955 | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...pact with a guaranteed annual wage. But struggling American, which currently produces 2.3% of the industry output, won important concessions at the last minute. It will not begin payments into the special G.A.W. trust fund until Sept. 15, 1956, more than a year after the Big Three, will thus save 5? an hour on 24,000 workers during the pact's first year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Peace for Three Years | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...less arrogant, less competitive people, this might have been only a pleasant custom, but for the tribes living an easy life in the mild, rich country between Vancouver and Yakutat Bay, Alaska, the feasts turned into mad giveaway races. Each "gift" was in effect a double dare: to save face, the guest had to reciprocate, usually within a year, with another gift of double the value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: THE BIG SPENDERS | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...tractors, power plants and locomotives by the thousands, provided the U.S. Navy with more diesel power than the entire horsepower of the prewar fleet. Since the war. the diesel has completed its conquest of U.S. railroads. Diesel locomotives now haul 86% of all rail passengers, 84% of all freight, save the railroads $600 million a year in fuel and maintenance. Fifty Class I railroads today are without a single steam engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Diesel Dazzle | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

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