Word: saver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Therefore, stay home if you can. Get a job as an ordinary shop-hand, as a store clerk, or sell something if you think you can. Tutoring or serving as companion is remunerative work when it is available. So much for the money saver...
...face-saver for the Prime Minister, Britain's stiff new tax has the same name as the shelved tax trap: The National Defense Contribution. Irrespective of whether a firm's profits are increasing so fast as to suggest "profiteering" or not, Simple Simon's tax is to bear with equal weight on virtually all British firms with annual net profits of more than $10,000 per year. It is a supertax. Its intent is to raise the existing average 25% income tax on British firms to 29% in the case of partnerships, 30% in the case...
...party, the "Social Democratic Federation of the U. S." on "democratic socialist principles and seeking to unite all farmers and workers with hand or brain." Said Norman Thomas bitterly: "I can almost find it in my heart to be sorry for them. ... At best it is a face-saver. At worst it is a mere spite party doomed to futility." Left to itself, the remainder of the Socialist party shouted down an invitation to join the Communists on a common ticket. Slated for adoption was a platform calling for public ownership of key industries; peace; slum clearance; a 30-hour...
Forsaking his mission as soul-saver for the moment, he revealed that the American game is not football at all but an unfortunate conglomeration of soccer and rugby. "And the best features of both those sports have been omitted," added Mr. Smith...
...benefits' Sodium metaphosphate was for a century considered a chemical curiosity. Then an expert on boiler waters discovered it was a potent water-softener. The Mellon Institute investigated possible uses. Now the onetime curiosity is used in vast quantities by textile mills and laundries as a soap-saver; in hotels for dishwashing; for cleaning shrubbery and bathing dogs...