Word: saver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mason said the Society had asked MIT fraternities and foremen at the Eliot Bridge site, and had even tried to borrow the "Leviathan," the Harvard crew's Nile-type practice barge. "We couldn't even get a life-saver," he pined...
Some people who ordered Red Books last year still have not called for them, Levine stated. They can pick up their copies by contacting Levine in Lowell J-41, Harold N. Saver '51, circulation manager, in Leverett J-32, or Donald M. Maynard Jr. '51 in Dudley...
When the sheikh put his share in the lands up for auction, Gulf Oil Corp. and Shell Union Oil Corp. made token bids, and Independent walked off with the prize. One oilman said simply: "The whole industry stood on the sidelines and cheered." For Independent is an important face-saver-token "proof" that the U.S. does not maintain its strategic Middle East beachhead for the sole benefit of the companies that dominate the U.S. oil industry...
...Money Saver. After Booth has installed PhotoMetric at all his Bennett stores, he will lease the equipment to other retailers (at $75 to $100 a month, plus royalties) and to manufacturers at cost. The retailer will merely have to take the picture and send it to the manufacturer to make the suit. Booth estimates that any retailer with a gross of $50,000 a year can profitably adopt PhotoMetric. The greatest savings will be in alteration costs, inventory, space, insurance, etc. In fact, Booth thinks that anyone can set up in business with a swatch of cloth and a camera...
...lacked the crinoline-&-poke-bonnet zeal of their forerunners. Perhaps they had become jaded with success. There were even some faint, uncertain signs of a retreat. One woman delegate knitted steadily through the three-day session. Another viewed with alarm the idea of community-cooked meals as a chore-saver. "Too many women find creative satisfaction in cooking," she cried. There were other signs of a return to old-fashioned ideas. The corset had already re-encircled the female waist; motherhood was at a 30-year peak of popularity...